That was my point, yes, but I meant to reply to @[email protected].

That's a long way from all or most YAML being JSON-compatible. I wonder if more YAML files in the wild parse as Markdown than JSON.

Does your viewer/editor not show space chars or indent levels?

How do you figure?

I've never understood the frustration over magic variables. It's always sounded similar to the complaints about var declarations when people are used to explicit type declarations. Verbosity like that just reads as attenuating noise to me.