3 ms·

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

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.