How do you do block comments in YAML?
YAML supports inline comments, but does not support block comments.
From Wikipedia:
Comments begin with the number sign (
#
), can start anywhere on a line, and continue until the end of the line
A comparison with JSON, also from Wikipedia:
The syntax differences are subtle and seldom arise in practice: JSON allows extended charactersets like UTF-32, YAML requires a space after separators like comma, equals, and colon while JSON does not, and some non-standard implementations of JSON extend the grammar to include Javascript's
/* ... */
comments. Handling such edge cases may require light pre-processing of the JSON before parsing as in-line YAML.
# If you want to write
# a block-commented Haiku
# you'll need three pound signs
The spec only describes one way of marking comments:
An explicit comment is marked by a “#” indicator.
That's all. There are no block comments.