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That's a Lot of YAML

YAML’s permissive parsing leads to surprising type conversions: the string “NO” becomes a boolean under the 1.1 spec, times like “04:30” turn into seconds-since-midnight, and large integers are interpreted as octal. Additionally, version numbers are treated as floats, and insecure loaders can execute arbitrary code, making debugging and security handling especially tricky.