If you are using a dynamic interpreted language please do not used use YAML1, or any other simple data serialization language, for configuration files. Strictly speaking configuration is just data, of course, so you can use a data serialization language to represent your applications, or libraries, configuration. In some environments, like static compiled languages say, [...]
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