Consider the comment as like a header in HTTP in relation to body content: a side channel for information. I despair that anyone was putting processing pragmas

Consider the comment as like a header in HTTP in relation to body content: a side channel for information. I despair that anyone was putting processing pragmas in comments, but you can’t beat all the human out of a programmer. The word “Notation” in JSON and the fact that JSON allows an arbitrary quantity of ignored bytes in any object (whitespace) imply that comments would have been just fine. How many JSON processors are required to preserve whitespace? (Ignorant here, I’ll take any informed answer and learn from it.)