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0 pointsbaobun8mo ago0 comments

YAML is actually not a superset of JSON.

https://john-millikin.com/json-is-not-a-yaml-subset

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30052633

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cluckindan8mo ago

The NO case is not valid JSON.

So that leaves scientific notation.

baobunOP8mo ago

The point is that "going right ahead and write your .yml files in JSON" is not valid. You'd have to restrict yourself to a subset of JSON to not get different semantics.

joombaga8mo ago

If you configure the parser to treat it as YAML 1.2 then you don't need to restrict yourself to a subset.

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