The 5 Stages of YAML

Re:The 5 Stages of YAML by paulddraper on Monday August 20, 2018 @06:12PM (#17804489)

For something in between 4 and 5 for JSON, see https://jsonnet.org/

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Re:The 5 Stages of YAML by BugsJustFindMe on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:12PM (#17806296)

That's kinda funny. Once you add comments and function calls to JSON, you've basically just made a Python module.

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Re:The 5 Stages of YAML by beaconstudios on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:29AM (#17808224)

at that point you might as well just require() a js file instead of skirting around the issue of code vs config.

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Re:The 5 Stages of YAML by paulddraper on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:05PM (#17812715)

It is Turning complete, but also pure (side-effect free).

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Re:The 5 Stages of YAML by beaconstudios on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:51PM (#17813075)

You don't need a whole new language to have that though, just don't put side effects in your config.js

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