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		eliben on Oct 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf] That's an ugly workaround, not a solution. It helps breed half-baked "solutions" like the "pipe through jsmin" Crockford himself suggests. Ultimately, it makes JSON unsuitable for configuration files (there are other reasons for that, to be fair, like over-verboseness)

oneeyedpigeon on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

Not necessarily. If you're naming your keys nicely, and using an easily-understandable structure, for simple config files, you shouldn't really need comments.

eliben on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

"simple config files" implies an optimist. Good for you, sir.

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