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krapp on Oct 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advanced Scientific Data Format

>JSON is a subset of YAML anyway.

It isn't, really. A conforming YAML parser will not treat JSON data the same way that a JSON parser will in all cases. [0,1] The only correct way to deal with JSON is using a JSON parser.

[0]https://john-millikin.com/json-is-not-a-yaml-subset

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31406473

nerdponx on Oct 5, 2022 [–]

Is the "%YAML 1.2" directive necessary? Seems like something that you should be able to turn on in a YAML parsing library.

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