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Dear industry, if you are going to add comments to JSON, please make it the /* */ variety.
by billpg 14y ago
Dear industry, if you are going to add comments to JSON, please make it the /* */ variety.
- GhotiFish 14y agoWhy? I dislike those comments.
- billpg 14y agoText editors will sometimes insert end-of-line characters in the name of word-wrap. Using the end-of-line as a comment terminator would require significant refactoring of JSON parsers, which were previously at liberty to lump CR and LF together with SP and TAB. A starting and ending token, on the other hand, fits the pattern already required of a JSON parser.
- Shorel 14y ago> Text editors will sometimes insert end-of-line characters in the name of word-wrap. In this decade, only a brain damaged text editor would do that.