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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Martin Atkins	382e1ca821	lang: yamldecode and yamlencode functions ... These follow the same principle as jsondecode and jsonencode, but use YAML instead of JSON. YAML has a much more complex information model than JSON, so we can only support a subset of it during decoding, but hopefully the subset supported here is a useful one. Because there are many different ways to _generate_ YAML, the yamlencode function is forced to make some decisions, and those decisions are likely to affect compatibility with other real-world YAML parsers. Although the format here is intended to be generic and compatible, we may find that there are problems with it that'll we'll want to adjust for in a future release, so yamlencode is therefore marked as experimental for now until the underlying library is ready to commit to ongoing byte-for-byte compatibility in serialization. The main use-case here is met by yamldecode, which will allow reading in files written in YAML format by humans for use in Terraform modules, in situations where a higher-level input format than direct Terraform language declarations is helpful.	7 years ago