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> I specified text: 2.1 (a number) instead of text: '2.1' (a string) - causing Stack to complain vigorously lol, not even Haskell can escape YAML being YAML.

• ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
  Of all the complaints about YAML, I never understood this one, which is actually the correct way to handle it. Of course N.M (without some kind of quotes) is a floating point number and not a string!? The other way around would be _really_ strange.
  • javcasas 3y ago
    On a general case, yes. But we are talking about Stack, a system for managing software dependencies. When was the last time you put numbers intended to be real numbers in a dependency declaration file? In different words, when was the last time you added, subtracted, multiplied or divided versions? Version numbers are always strings with special comparison semantics.
    • ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
      I'm sorry, but I fail to understand the point you are trying to make.
      • nyssos 3y ago
        Their point is that standard YAML is a poor fit for dependency config files.
      • javcasas 3y ago
        My point is that all the numbers in a dependency configuration file should be automatically converted to strings, because they are really strings. Yaml doesn't do that.