Re:JSON vs. YAML – try it yourself
by quesera on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @08:23AM
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I think the GP was using '...' as a standard "stuff removed for brevity" ellipsis.
However, since you asked:
In a YAML document, there is an implicit top-level object, either a hash/dict/associative array or a list/array depending on your formatting.
The '...' separates streams, or top-level objects, within a single file or IO stream.
YAML parsers generally stop when they hit the separator, even in languages that can do multiple assignment. If your IO stream behaves like a file handle, you can read it repeatedly into different variables until EOF.
Multiple streams in a YAML document are fairly uncommon. I think most people don't know they exist, but I appreciate the flexibility and use it whenever it makes sense.
However, since you asked:
In a YAML document, there is an implicit top-level object, either a hash/dict/associative array or a list/array depending on your formatting.
The '...' separates streams, or top-level objects, within a single file or IO stream.
YAML parsers generally stop when they hit the separator, even in languages that can do multiple assignment. If your IO stream behaves like a file handle, you can read it repeatedly into different variables until EOF.
Multiple streams in a YAML document are fairly uncommon. I think most people don't know they exist, but I appreciate the flexibility and use it whenever it makes sense.