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Nice – I like your verbatim syntax for multiline strings!

I went with indentation because a very common use-case in a configuration file is commenting out lines. Even with CSON-like comma rules, you still need to balance your {} and []s. Indentation balances itself most* of the time.

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Indentations are still desired for most human tasks indeed! But you can have indentations and groupings at once, one complementing each other. As you've noticed, CSON's verbatim syntax was intentionally designed so that it remains valid without any indentation but your instinct really wants to align those lines anyway. (A similar approach can be seen in Zig verbatim strings, which seem to be designed independently from CSON and make me much more confident about this choice.)

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