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		merijnv on Feb 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are we templating YAML? Having prefixed commas is a rather common style in the Haskell community, because it ends up nicely matching open/closing brackets/braces and lining things up. Since the author of Dhall comes from the Haskell community, he's kept this style.

Gabriel439 on Feb 8, 2019 [–]

Author here: This is correct. I'm just borrowing a Haskell convention. Also, I like this convention because it leads to vertical alignment of commas.

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