std.data.json formal review

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On Friday, 14 August 2015 at 14:09:25 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> a) we aren't writing
> b) comments are for the human reader, not for the program. Dmd 
> should ignore the comments, and it doesn't matter the order.
> c) it's not important, I think we all agree a format that has 
> specific allowances for comments is better than json.

One should have a config file format for which there are standard 
libraries that preserves structure and comments. It is quite 
common to have tools that read and write config files.