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0 pointslillesvin7mo ago0 comments

The argument was that most of the mentioned problems could be solved by quoting the values. I don't have a problem with avoiding "on" as a key, and I apparently haven't used it ever, because I've never run into this particular problem in my 15+ years using YAML.

So, sure, if you want to play it super safe, quote keys as well. But I'm personally fine with the trade-off in not quoting keys.

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Dylan168077mo ago

If you compare to JSON5 instead of JSON, you still get the benefit of unquoted keys, but you also get a guarantee the keys are strings, and it's harder to forget to quote a value.

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Dylan168077mo ago

If you compare to JSON5 instead of JSON, you still get the benefit of unquoted keys, but you also get a guarantee the keys are strings, and it's harder to forget to quote a value.

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