YAML: The Norway Problem
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Earlier this week, Haroen Viaene posted this tweet about YAML:
worst part of yaml: https://yaml.org/type/bool.html
— Haroen Viaene (@haroenv) January 10, 2022
The linked-to page contains the documentation on what defines a boolean in YAML, and details that it can be parsed using this regex:
y|Y|yes|Yes|YES|n|N|no|No|NO
|true|True|TRUE|false|False|FALSE
|on|On|ON|off|Off|OFF
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The reason to why this is problematic in some cases, is “The Norway Problem” YAML has: when you abbreviat...
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