> But YAML is so far in the opposite direction, we get the same surprise conversions we’ve had in Excel This is optional. Besides using a better parser that us

> But YAML is so far in the opposite direction, we get the same surprise conversions we’ve had in Excel This is optional. Besides using a better parser that uses the spec that's long fixed a lot of these listed in the article, another way to avoid the issue is adding more verbosity (that would still not match XML nor JSON). You don't have this option in XML/JSON, you can't remove all that useless markup (and leave it only when it's useful) > Why is “on” a boolean literal Because that's what humans use to denote booleans