Hi Charles, On 2021-03-04 07:06, Charles Plessy wrote: > how about YAML's null value for entries for which it was confirmed that > the information does not exist ?
This was my initial idea. I do not know much about YAML, but at least Perl YAML implementations see no difference between different ways of specifying undefined/null in YAML. I tried both YAML and YAML::XS modules, and both seemingly do the same: perl -MYAML -MData::Dumper -we 'print Dumper Load($ARGV[0])' 'field: ~' $VAR1 = { 'field' => undef }; perl -MYAML -MData::Dumper -we 'print Dumper Load($ARGV[0])' 'field:' $VAR1 = { 'field' => undef }; perl -MYAML -MData::Dumper -we 'print Dumper Load($ARGV[0])' 'field: !!null' $VAR1 = { 'field' => undef }; Maybe I am doing something wrong, but currently I am under impression that YAML does not have enough flavors of "unknown" to cater our needs. Best, Andrius