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Re:No YAML by ChrisLomont on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:14AM (#29025123)
>Of course it is! It’s explicitly defined as an interchange format.

So an INI file is code too?

Generally people think of code as being executed and doing some task. Can you use JSON to compute prime numbers?

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Re:No YAML by reegnz on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:10AM (#29027022)
A language does not need to be considered Turing complete to be considered code.
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Re:No YAML by ChrisLomont on Thursday October 28, 2021 @07:33PM (#29033422)
It needs to perform some computation, right?

Or is code now any structured data read by a program?

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Re:No YAML by olodus on Friday October 29, 2021 @03:56PM (#29042863)
A python script could be a text doc if you open it in a markdown editor. A yaml file could execute web call if run through a program with a parser.

It is all up to the interpreter you give the code too. Your program that takes yaml config is an interpreter, though probably a very limited one and hopefully a safe one (though that needs to be tested / checked for to be more sure of)

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Re:No YAML by eyelidlessness on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:11AM (#29035092)
Now? XML has been code for decades.
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