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139 points robin_reala | 4 comments | 20 Aug 16 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source

1. emilsedgh ◴[20 Aug 16 18:30 UTC] No.12327758[source]▶

Major irritant: Commas

I thought the major irritant was having to add double-quotes around keys? Commas never bothered me personally, but having to use double quotes is actually irritating.

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2. smcl ◴[20 Aug 16 18:38 UTC] No.12327800[source]▶

>>12327758 (TP) #

I was thinking the same thing - maybe I haven't hand-edited enough JSON but I have never felt like commas were any sort of issue at all

3. espadrine ◴[20 Aug 16 18:43 UTC] No.12327816[source]▶

>>12327758 (TP) #

It comes from the flow of edition: remove the last element of a list (which typically is on its own line), forget about the fact that there is a comma at the end of the previous line.

But both optional commas and optional double-quotes are provided by Hjson <https://hjson.org/>. They do not advocate its use in protocols, however.

4. oxplot ◴[20 Aug 16 19:29 UTC] No.12327978[source]▶

>>12327758 (TP) #

Inability to add trailing commas creates two problems:

- You can forget to drop/add comma when copying an existing line - Adding/Removing last element shows up as two changes in diff

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