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- Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please
This is why I've become a fan of StrictYAML [0]. Of course it is not supported by many projects, but at least you are given the option to dispense with all the unnecessary features and their associated pitfalls in the context of your own projects.
Most notably it only offers three base types (scalar string, array, object) and moves the work of parsing values to stronger types (such as int8 or boolean) to your codebase where you tend to wrap values parsed from YAML into other types anyway.
Less surprises and headaches, but very niche, unfortunately.
[0] https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
- I prefer human-readable file formats
https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml/blob/master/hitch/s...
I think you shouldn't use yaml or toml for this.
> TOML's hierarchies are difficult to infer from syntax alone
True! The point of TOML is to flatten the hierarchical structures.
- StrictYAML
- Unit Tests as Documentation
I dont think it is about discipline. At its core, a good test will take an example and do something with it to demonstrate an outcome.
That's exactly what how to docs do - probably with the same examples.
Logically, they should be the same thing.
For example:
https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml/blob/master/hitch/s...
And:
https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/using/alpha/scalar/email-and...
You just need a (non turing complete) language that is dual use - it generates docs and runs tests.
- XML is better than YAML
NestedText already is the way I use YAML; everything is intepreted as a string. I have some trust in my YAML parser to not mangle most strings. I could use NestedText, but users would be unfamiliar with it, and IIRC the only parsers are in Python. But then I could use StrictYaml too https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml
- The new type of SQL injection
you can stick to a subset of YAML syntax (e.g. strictYAML)
- DO YOU YAML?
YAML stands for "YAML Ain’t Markup Language" - this is known as a recursive acronym. YAML is often used for writing configuration files. It’s human readable, easy to understand and can be used with other programming languages. Although YAML is commonly used in many disciplines, it has received criticism on the amoutn of whitespace .yml files have, difficulty in editing, and complexity of the standard. Despite the criticism, properly using YAML ensures that you can reproduce the results of a project and makes sure that the virtual environment packages play nicely with system packages. (If you're looking for another way to share environments there are other alternatives to YAML which include StrictYAML (a type-safe YAML parser) and NestedText)
- The yaml document from hell
The example you linked provides this as an example of a YAML document that he wants his format to support.
- The YAML Document from Hell
That safe subset exists and is implemented in a number of languages. It is called strict-yaml: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
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