[HN Gopher] Strings in YAML - To quote or not to quote (2018) ___________________________________________________________________ Strings in YAML - To quote or not to quote (2018) Author : DMell Score : 21 points Date : 2023-01-24 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blogs.perl.org) (TXT) w3m dump (blogs.perl.org) | merlincorey wrote: | I'm surprised in a discussion of when to quote or not quote with | YAML the dreaded "yes", "no", "true", "false", "on", and "off" | booleans didn't come up. | | Quoting the article: | | > In YAML, you can write a string without quotes, if it doesn't | have a special meaning. | | Yeah, about that... | [deleted] | AceJohnny2 wrote: | it's indeed a big _if_ ;) | | What parent refers to, YAML's Norway Problem: | https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-24 23:00 UTC)