| ▲ | Nevermark 4 days ago |
| This is so clearly superior. Delimiters are prefixes. But the scale of technical debt this insight has revealed is depressing. |
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| ▲ | citizenkeen 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| Saying this is clearly superior means you don’t keep your lists sorted. A sorted list is as likely to add something to the beginning as the end, where this solution has the same problem. |
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| ▲ | Nevermark 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I just reverse the sort order when that case happens. | |
| ▲ | setr 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The only correct syntax/format [
, a
, b
, c
]
If only there existed a language designer intelligent enough to support it | | |
| ▲ | maccard 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | You want yaml key:
- a
- b
- c
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| ▲ | MonkeyClub 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Lisp: (
a
b
c
)
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| ▲ | crazygringo 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thank you for the humor! I'm just suddenly slightly terrified someone's going to see this and think it's genuinely a good idea and make it part of the next popular scripting language, where lists are defined by starting commas or something :S |
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