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That's a map as a list element, iirc the terminology. But check out this. When studying the Yaml spec I discovered that a map property (key: value) can have no
by aliswe 6y ago
That's a map as a list element, iirc the terminology. But check out this.
When studying the Yaml spec I discovered that a map property (key: value) can have not only a string as its key, but any value. Even a list. (cue screams)
- shahsyed 6y agoHere's another reason why YAML is bad: the fact that I have to read the spec to figure out what's going on. It should have been fairly simple to do this. Why do I have to know the difference between ":" and "=" ...?
- Already__Taken 6y agoWhy didn't anyone learn from CSS when we all made pre-processors like stylus, less and sass that added white-space sensitivity. It's not great. I thought HCL was one of the best attempts at a terse config language. Shortening foo { bar { bazz {} }} to foo bar baz{} cleans up plenty.