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> CONL uses indentation for structure. Oops.

• cirwin 1y ago
  Author here. Seemed like the least bad of the options. Being able to comment out sections of a config file easily is a prime use-case; and that really implies using newlines as delimiters, and well, you fall into this trap..
  • kiitos 1y ago
    Why is the ability to comment-out entire sections of a config file a primary use case? What are the motivating requirements for this feature? That aside, you don't need semantically-meaningful indentation to support commenting-out whole sections, see e.g. any braces-based lexer/parser that supports `/* ... */` style comments.