I feel that Yaml sucks. I understand the need for such markup language but I think it sucks. Somehow it’s clunky to use. Can you explain why?

  • @tyler@programming.dev
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    23 months ago

    That misleading behavior does happen in Python. The next programmer that comes along can’t tell if the original programmer fucked it up and didn’t unindent to put a statement outside of the block or if they meant to put it inside the block. I’ve debugged this one too many times and it takes hours each time because it’s impossible to see the bug at all!!

    • Eager Eagle
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      3 months ago

      The misleading behavior is about what you expect to execute in the source code you’re looking at vs what’s actually executed.

      What you describe is a logic ambiguity that can happen in any program / language.

      • @tyler@programming.dev
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        12 months ago

        I don’t agree. It’s a direct result of whitespace, which does not happen if you don’t use whitespace. For example it can happen in Java and kotlin, but only if you use if statements without braces, which you pretty much never see. If you do see it you know to look out for the exact issue I described. That’s not possible in Python, since there is no alternative.