I wanted a no*-op script the other day:

  script:
    - true  # oh no*

No* pun intended.

*Pun also intended.

(To the uninitiated: YAML automatically casts the bare string “true” into a boolean for you. Fairly reasonable. But it does the same with “yes” and, per the parent comment, “no” too. This is problematic if you have a list of ISO language codes including Norwegian.)

Personally, I think configuration languages should only accept strings. I still haven't met a data parser that didn't create more problems than it solves.

The application knows exactly the schema of its data, let it do the parsing.

But yeah, the YAML one is crazy.

Can you please buy the yaml.no domain and put something (like a list of better alternatives) on there? ;) I wanted to do that, but they won't give me a Norwegian domain :|

Background: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/

I do like "strict yaml."