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		ghostwriter on July 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Dhall Configuration Language What's the point of allowing a trailing comma? A delimiter symbol is a delimiter symbol, be it a an opening curly brace or a comma between elements, and one can simply align delimeters.

eru on July 15, 2022 [–]

The main point is to make git diffs smaller when adding or removing elements, I think.

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