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Comment No numbers (Score 1) 161

One of YAML’s big problems nowadays is its Perl-derived data model that (happily) obscures any distinction between strings and numbers (let alone integer/float!). Some parsers attempt to coerce such a distinction out, but in YAML itself they’re all just “scalars”. That makes it an odd fit in a lot of modern applications, which expect more detailed typing of scalar values.

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