• NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
      15·
      2 months ago

      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.

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
          3·
          2 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.

        • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
          9·
          2 months ago

          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.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      2 months ago

      There’s comments in the specs and a bunch of parsers that actually inore //