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		aepiepaey on June 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) The web console is not a JSON parser. To check if something parses as JSON in the web console you should use JSON.parse, e.g: `JSON.parse('{ 013: "11" }')` which should produce a syntax error (as already mentioned by siblings to this comment).

bhaak on June 22, 2018 [–]

Thanks. Yeah, I had mistakenly the believe that JSON is mostly a Javascript hash, not that 'JSON is valid Javascript' which means it's a subset of all possible Javascript hashes.

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