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Re:Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language by kolpa on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:37PM (#17526485)
Json allows comments, but they have to be in string fields of an object so they survive reserialization.
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Re:Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language by __david__ on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:04AM (#17528920)
So then… not actually comments at all?

A nice config parser will error out or at least warn loudly when encountering an unknown parameter. This helps prevent typos.

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