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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

On one hand I agree, on the other hand I just know that some people would immediately abuse it and put relevant data into comments.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

do they do that in xml? never seen that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I have actually seen it in an XML file in the wild. Never quite understood why they did it. Anything they encoded into there, they could have just added a node for.
But it was an XML format that was widely used in a big company, so presumably somewhere someone wrote a shitty XML parser that can't deal with additional nodes. Or they were just scared of touching the existing structure, I don't know.

[–] Feathercrown 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is why there are none, but I still think it's dumb. Parsers can't see comments anyways.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That's assuming people actually use a parser and don't build their own "parser" to read values manually.

And before anyone asks: Yes, I've known people who did exactly that and to this day I'm still traumatized by that discovery.

But yes, comments would've been nice.

[–] bitjunkie 2 points 3 months ago

A tool being flexible enough that a shitty dev can use it to make something shitty isn't a poor reflection on the tool.