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Subject: Re: Why Strict YAML Refuses To Do Implicit Typing
From: Stefan Ram
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:39 UTC
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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: Why Strict YAML Refuses To Do Implicit Typing
Date: 24 Apr 2024 11:39:56 GMT
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Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:
>StrictYAML sidesteps this problem by ignoring key parts of the spec,
>in an attempt to create a "zero surprises" parser.

HTML went the opposite way. Back in the day, quotation marks around
attributes were mandatory, no ifs or buts. But nowadays, you can
sometimes skip 'em, depending on what's inside the attribute!

Subject: Re: Why Strict YAML Refuses To Do Implicit Typing
From: Lawrence D'Oliv
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:24 UTC
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On 24 Apr 2024 11:39:56 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

> HTML went the opposite way. Back in the day, quotation marks around
> attributes were mandatory, no ifs or buts. But nowadays, you can
> sometimes skip 'em, depending on what's inside the attribute!

HTML was originally an “application” of SGML, and followed its
conventions. Which meant that quotation marks were optional if there was
no confusion.

Nowadays, we put them in as a matter of course.

Omitted closing tags are still with us.

You are confused; but this is your normal state.

comp / comp.misc / Re: Why Strict YAML Refuses To Do Implicit Typing

Subject	Author
Re: Why Strict YAML Refuses To Do Implicit Typing	Stefan Ram
Re: Why Strict YAML Refuses To Do Implicit Typing	Lawrence D'Oliveiro