> The problem is insufficiently analysed by the article author
The article author also misidentifies the version of the YAML spec (calling it 2.0, which doesn’t exist; the behavior is from YAML 1.1, and this class of problems motivated a bunch of changes in YAML 1.2, which has been out since 2009.)
But the article author isn’t trying to analyze the problem, he’s trying to rationalize why what is notionally a YAML-processing library just ignores the spec.
The article author also misidentifies the version of the YAML spec (calling it 2.0, which doesn’t exist; the behavior is from YAML 1.1, and this class of problems motivated a bunch of changes in YAML 1.2, which has been out since 2009.)
But the article author isn’t trying to analyze the problem, he’s trying to rationalize why what is notionally a YAML-processing library just ignores the spec.