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Except you can put comments in your Javascript ... I'd love to have comments in JSON. It's not so important for machine generated files but when you hand-craft

• sangnoir 10y ago
  > I'd love to have comments in JSON. It's not so important for machine generated files but when you hand-craft an example it's nice to annotate it. Luckily, Douglas Crockford has an explanation and an almost prophetic solution[1] for your use-case: I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't. Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser. 1. https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaGSr https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaG...