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by Ygg2 1171 days ago
YAML is excellent as a post natal abortion mechanism. Anyone working on its parser will question why live when YAML exists. Source: I'm developing a YAML parser.

What broke me were: plain string and empty node handling.

Here is a fun quiz. Which of these two documents or both or neither are valid. With explanation ofc.

Yaml#1

     :
Yaml#2

    :