On: Why are we templating YAML?

[Spivak]

> the 1 char operators that concatenate stuff

But they're super useful. Some examples from Ansible.

    - name: Do something annoying.
      command: >
        ./my-really-annoying-command
        -a yep
        -c it
        --really-does=take-a-lot
        --of-options
        subcommand
        --target=blah
        --timeout=60
        --callback=/usr/local/bin/callback-x245.sh
        https://example.com/this-is-the-worst.aspx

    varable_that_I_need_to_preserve_whitespace: |
      #BEGIN_LICENSE_KEY
      ...

[rbanffy → Spivak]

But they are less than readable.