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Everything about TOML format - Orchard Dweller (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I really don't understand why people still insist on prohibiting trailing commas anywhere. The syntax is interesting but it looks like defining an array of objects would be needlessly difficult. I think the double square bracket syntax is far too easy to confuse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

but... trailing commas are ok in TOML

edit 1: I now see the caveat of an inline table - though trailing commas are not that useful for an inline list of values anyways
edit 2: they're changing this for TOML 1.1: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/516 .

The double square bracket is for an array of tables. A regular array looks "normal": https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0#array