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		milliams on Jan 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Yaml document from hell I agree. They make a rod for their own back by having implicit conversion rules which, while well defined, are not well understood. "Explicit is better than implicit" and all that.

progx on Jan 12, 2023 [–]

Advantage: things like "literal_block: |" or ">" are not necessary with a simple quote.

And i really don't know, why in hell they add binary-Data to a configuration language for humans.

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