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> powerful as yaml Can you make an example of the power of yaml that makes it more like a programming language (in particular vs JSON)?

• riffraff 6y ago
  not OP but: tags (custom data types), more builtin data types (dates etc), more syntax variations (heredocuments, multiple ways to write a string,a boolean, etc), comments, references+aliases. The language is vast, and most people use it without knowing it. I love YAML, but I wish there was a "strict&sane yaml subset".
  • ithkuil 6y ago
    All those are good examples of yaml complexity but none of that is anywhere near what even a simple programming language can unleash (variables, loops, functions, recursion etc)
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    • Znafon 6y ago
      You can do recursion in YAML, and it ends badly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack#Variations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack#Variatio...
      • ithkuil 6y ago
        Recursion without termination doesn't produce a useful computation