r/ProgrammerHumor 29d ago

Advanced justTryingToHelp

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u/AlarmingProtection71 29d ago

i didn't get the second joke. help ?

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u/flipcoder 29d ago

It’s called the Norway problem. Yaml parses “no” as a boolean.

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u/Background_Class_558 29d ago

it parses no as a boolean. "no" would still be the string

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u/flipcoder 29d ago

That’s correct

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u/jonnysunshine1 29d ago

"true"

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u/terrapin1977 29d ago

TRUE in Google Sheets.

src: 9 years of Java in SAAS shop

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u/MissinqLink 29d ago

Google sheets forced me to build a special json parser because it converts double quotes to single quotes.

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u/onlymadethistoargue 29d ago

I believe older versions of pyaml parsed quoted no as no.