This argument against the inclusion of comments is a good argument in favor of the inclusion of a date data type and a binary data type. Right now, there are a

This argument against the inclusion of comments is a good argument in favor of the inclusion of a date data type and a binary data type. Right now, there are a number of different ways to encode both types of data, and you see them all in the wild. And extra custom serialization and deserialization steps are always required to handle them.