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Re: "[Comments are a] bad for a data interchange format though, because people inevitably start putting important data in them" Any feature or tool can be abus

• tinus_hn 6y ago
  Adding comments to configuration files means you can’t manipulate these files automatically. The advantage of manual configuration and comments has to be pretty great if it has to balance against losing GUI configuration and the other features that depend on automatic manipulation of configuration.
  • twblalock 6y ago
    I automatically manipulate configuration files that contain comments all the time. If that's not doable then the tooling is the problem.
    • tinus_hn 6y ago
      It’s great that you made that work for the limited manipulation you want to do on files with comments in a limited structure but in the general case it’s not possible.
      • twblalock 6y ago
        Of course it is, if your tooling is good enough. My use cases are far from limited.