YAML example

hobbit.yaml

# Key / Value
book_name: The Hobbit

# Lists 
bad_guys:
  - goblins
  - wargs
  - Gollum
  - Smaug

# Nesting
Bilbo:
  role: Burglar
  skills:
    - sneakiness
    - bravery
  
# Anchors and Aliases
Thorin:
  role: King Under the Mountain
  hood_color: sky_blue
  skills:
    - &lead leadership # defines leadership to be used later
    - mining
    - battle
    - smithing 

Gandalf:
  role: Guide
  skills:
    - magic
    - *lead # pulling in leadership defined above. can be at any level // more or less embedded
    - smoke_rings

# Achors and Aliases: Merge Maps
Gloin: &dwarf_basics
  role: Member
  hood_color: white
  skills: 
    - battle
    - mining
    - smithing
Oin: # 
  <<: *dwarf_basics
  hood_color: brown # overwrites the hood color above 

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