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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

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.