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[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 month ago

All yaml is just sparkling JSON.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Always has been

[-] DataElemental@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

How do you figure?

[-] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

Valid JSON is valid YAML.

So valid YAML can contain JSON

[-] DataElemental@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

That's a long way from all or most YAML being JSON-compatible. I wonder if more YAML files in the wild parse as Markdown than JSON.

[-] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

JSON is valid YAML does not imply that YAML is valid JSON

[-] DataElemental@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That was my point, yes, but I was replying to @ZoteTheMighty@midwest.social's suggestion that "all yaml is just sparkling json".

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