[jerf]

Your criticism appears to be based on a transform written with an incomplete understanding of the source data. I'd submit the problem lies in the incomplete understanding of the source data, not the fact the source data had comments. If your transform didn't "know" comments were possible, what else did it not "know"?

TANSTAAFL.

[dpark]

> I'd submit the problem lies in the incomplete understanding of the source data

I'd submit that an incomplete understanding of the source data is not necessarily a problem. It's often a design goal. Generic tools have a limited understanding of the source data by design. I don't want my JSON parser/formatter/minifier/etc. to know about some silly parsing rules you added as comments. I want my JSON parser to understand JSON as it's defined.

Your nonstandard comment directives are the problem, not the fact that I didn't write a custom tool.