prism_languages: [yaml]
---
+### Dictionaries and lists
+
+```yaml
+# comments start with "#"
+# dictionary are written like "key: value"
+name: Martin D'vloper
+languages:
+ perl: Elite
+ python: Elite
+ pascal: Lame
+
+# list items beginn with a "- "
+foods:
+ - Apple
+ - Orange
+ - Strawberry
+ - Mango
+
+# booleans are lower case
+employed: true
+```
+
+
### Multiline strings
```yaml
+# Literal Block Scalar
Multiline: |
- hello
- world
+ exactly as you see
+ will appear these three
+ lines of poetry
+```
+
+```yaml
+# Folded Block Scalar
+Multiline: <
+ this is really a
+ single line of text
+ despite appearances
```
### Inheritance
<<: *defaults
b: 4
```
+
+### Reference content
+
+```yaml
+values: &ref
+ - These values
+ - will be reused below
+
+other_values:
+ <<: *ref
+```