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[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

And no comments, unless you use a non-standard parser. But then you might as well use anorher format.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

{"comment": "Who says you can't do comments in JSON?"}

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Lol. That works, but its hacky.

The meaning of a "comment" is an integrated language feauture to write something that is not parsed by that language. This is just regular JSON.

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

This only works if the software that consumes the JSON doesn’t validate it or ignores keys it doesn’t recognize (which is bad, IMHO).

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[–] tyler@programming.dev -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Now do a second comment.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

{"comment2": "I can do this all day."}

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 point 9 months ago

Now put a newline in your comment, to make it readable. Clearly you can see the problem here right? “comment2” isn’t a comment. It’s a key with a value. Numbering them doesn’t actually fix anything, in fact it makes it much much harder to maintain.