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AI's take on XML (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

{ "key": "six",
  "value": 6,
  "comment": "6 is a bad number. Use five." }

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, it's a field. Specifically, a field containing human-readable information about what is going on in adjacent fields, much like a comment. I see no issue with putting such information in a json file.

As for "you don't comment by putting information in variables": In Python, your objects have the __doc__ attribute, which is specifically used for this purpose.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Please don't. If you need something like json but with comments, then use YAML or TOML. Those formats are designed to be human-readable by default, json is better suited for interchanging information between different pieces of software. And if you really need comments inside JSON, then find a parser that supports // or /* */ syntax.