Re:XML is better than YAML
by EddTheSDET on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @02:37PM
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I once had an issue where something failed in prod but not in test, it was because a MAC address was dynamic and in prod only consisted of numbers so whatever tool we used parsed the Yaml value as a sexagesimal number and threw a type error. Yaml can be interesting…
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Re:XML is better than YAML
by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:29PM
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Note that the behavior you describe (like the “NO” problem) was part of the YAML 1.1 excessive-effort-at-DWIM insanity (in this case, intended to make time entry “just work”) that was removed in YAML 1.2.