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by crabbone 957 days ago
There's no real reason for that. It just happened like that. These aren't the only bad decisions made by JSON author, and not the worst either.

What you can do is: write comments using pound sign, and rename your files to YAML. You will also get a benefit of a million ways of writing multiline strings -- very confusing, but sometimes useful.