I hate new DUB config format

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 25 11:17:42 PST 2015


On 11/25/2015 02:10 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 19:02:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Note 1: json does support comments:
>>
>>     "comment" : "this is a comment",
>
> That doesn't work in the majority of contexts (it is illegal in an
> array, for example) nor is it supported by standard tools.
>
> Imagine if D didn't have comments and someone said "you could always
> write string comment = `foo`;". We'd laugh at the idea.

As you should. But the comparison is an exaggeration. -- Andrei


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