#sexagesimal — Public Fediverse posts

NB here is the #YAML #document from #hell [0] encoded in #JDAML.

I'm designing #JDAML to eliminate the risk of accidental interpretation. Unless a leaf value is clearly explicitly marked in a predictable manner, it will be interpreted as a #string.

So no #norwayproblem, no #sexagesimal or other weird number literals. No #anchors, #aliases, or #tags. No accidental non-string keys, no accidental numbers.

[0] as described by Ruud van Asseldonk in this article: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

I know there’s got to be a simple command-line way of doing this, but disgusted that because I don’t know it offhand I just spent ten minutes getting LibreOffice to sum a list of times, because ordinary calculator utilities don’t do #sexagesimal.  Binary octal hex, yes.  Degrees (/hours) minutes seconds, no.  It’d almost have been faster with a pencil.

Depressing since the first hardware #calculator I used (in the 70s, and it lasted nearly 30 years) did.  (Canon 8T; miss it.)

#progress

Sexagesimal numbers, anchors, aliases, and tags, the Norway problem, and non-string keys – if you believe YAML is simple, you must be a very complex human being.

@ruuda writes expertly about how complex YAML really is:

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

#yaml #complex #complexity #format #standard #sexagesimal