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		billpg on Feb 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language Text editors will sometimes insert end-of-line characters in the name of word-wrap. Using the end-of-line as a comment terminator would require significant refactoring of JSON parsers, which were previously at liberty to lump CR and LF together with SP and TAB. A starting and ending token, on the other hand, fits the pattern already required of a JSON parser.

Shorel on Feb 27, 2013 [–]

> Text editors will sometimes insert end-of-line characters in the name of word-wrap.

In this decade, only a brain damaged text editor would do that.

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