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Yambo has a very nice feature called Anker's in the beginning, it does seem a bit weird to use it,

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but in this lecture I would try to explain you what anchors are, how you can use them effectively.

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And, yeah, hopefully this will work out.

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So let's jump in to an example so that you can easily understand what I'm talking about in this very

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simple person object that we have here, let's imagine that we have another property called a cell or

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something like that.

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And let's say all this property always has to be equal with what says on names of for example, the

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name is John.

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So, for example, the name is John, then this property needs to be John as well.

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If I change it here to Jane, it should be Jane as well.

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It maybe just doesn't make a lot of sense here, but just hang on for a second in order to avoid this

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duplication.

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Yamal provides this important feature called Angus, and which means we can sort of like define a value

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and a value, and we do it by using the ampersand sign and defining an alias on just called alias name

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here.

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It's the same as the key here, but it doesn't have to be the same.

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And now I have to find this alias here.

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I can replace Jane here with asterisks in the name of the alias that I have selected in this case was

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named.

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So let's copy and paste this and go to our Yamal, to Jason Convertino and take a closer look at what

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has happened.

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So now I'm going to convert it to Jason and you will see here, that name is Gene and Self is Gene,

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and I didn't have to duplicate this fellow.

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So if I'm changing here to something else.

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It has changed here as well, so this is a very important.

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Feature of the language that allows us to do stuff like this, simply anchoring a property isn't really

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that helpful.

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You could use it, but usually it's not that powerful.

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But I just wanted to start in a very, very small example so that you can have and understand exactly

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how this works.

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Let's go back and say that we maybe have multiple persons, which in this case is not the scenario.

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But let's say we have to defined multiple persons and for whatever reason, they share some common properties.

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So, for example, if I defined here based person.

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We can say that.

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Maybe the city and a country where they live is the same.

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So.

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City is New York City and country is USA, that's great.

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Now we can use this object and have its values anchored just as we have with a single value, so we

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can anchor an entire object, not only value.

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And the way we do it is pretty, pretty similar.

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So, for example, if I define my anchor here as base and I'm doing specifically not using the same

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as the property name as an object name to show you that you can define any an alias that you want.

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And now and go inside the person.

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But it will have to do is to put in to less than Signe's.

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Colin.

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And then again, I only got access to the property.

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And that one is space.

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So what this will do is it will basically merge these two objects.

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It will take the properties, city and country from base person, and it will add those properties to

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person.

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So, for example, if this was person one.

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And I have another person that is called person two, for example, then in that scenario, this will

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work and will not have a problem.

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We will able to use that multiple times.

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Now, I'm not going to use it.

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I just wanted to show you how it works for this very simple example.

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So back at the convertor.

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And you will see here that no person has the same properties that were inherited from base person,

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city and country.

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And this is a very, very powerful feature that you will be using when building your get PMO pipelines

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in order to reduce the amount of code.

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What's important to remember about anchors is that it helps you avoid duplicate content across your

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configurations and you can use anchors to sort of like inherit properties from other objects without

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having to duplicate a lot of stuff.