Boolean Language-Independent Type for
<trademark>YAML</trademark> Version 1.1
Working Draft 2005-01-18
Oren
Ben-Kiki
oren@ben-kiki.org
Clark
Evans
cce+yaml@clarkevans.com
Brian
Ingerson
ingy@ttul.org
2001-2005
Oren Ben-Kiki,
Clark Evans,
Brian Ingerson
This document may be freely copied provided it is not modified.
Status
This specification is a draft reflecting consensus reached by members of
the yaml-core
mailing list. Any questions regarding this draft should be
raised on this list.
URI:
tag:yaml.org,2002:bool
Shorthand:
!!bool
Kind:
Scalar.
Canonical:
y|n
Regexp:
y|Y|yes|Yes|YES|n|N|no|No|NO
|true|True|TRUE|false|False|FALSE
|on|On|ON|off|Off|OFF
Definition:
Mathematical Booleans.
A Boolean represents a true/false value. Booleans are formatted as
English words
(true
/false
,
yes
/no
or
on
/off
)
for readability and may be abbreviated as a single character
y
/n
or
Y
/N
.
<userinput>!!bool</userinput> Examples
canonical: y
answer: NO
logical: True
option: on