Post #1112004

2026-04-09 14:03 UTC

when they invent time travel I&#39;m going to go back and buy Doug Crockford increasingly nicer sandwiches until he defines a multiline syntax in JSON from day one

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@stevefenton@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 14:13

@sil I feel that if we could get string templates in before Doug writes the JSON spec and you liberally the sandwiches we might get.. { /* A quote by Oscar Wilde*/ "quote": ` Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working ` }

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@channelOwen@fosstodon.org 2026-04-09 14:13

@sil I will shout for any tea/ coffee if he also agrees an option for inline comments. Orange Peko? ~ i think i can get that in London, maybe not in the US. The code/ CPU/ process doesn't need them, the new grad next to me definitely does.

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@bit101@mstdn.social 2026-04-09 14:42

@sil I'll contribute a platter of sandwiches if you can talk to him about not needing quotes on every property. And a round of pints for trailing commas.

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@sldrant@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 22:04

@sil and comments 🤲

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