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		ris on April 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing JSON is a Minefield > the whitespace issues of YAML It's not just whitespace issues yaml has - try storing ISO two letter country codes as values and as soon as you get to norway, you've got a boolean. There are many things which are deceptively "simple" where that actually means "I haven't thought about this very much".

orf on April 22, 2018 [–]

Could you not just use 'no'?

ris on April 22, 2018 | [–]

Absolutely, but only once you've tracked down the unexpected bug.

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