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139 points robin_reala | 1 comments | 20 Aug 16 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.355s | source
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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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1. espadrine ◴[20 Aug 16 18:43 UTC] No.12327816[source]▶
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.