Make commas in lists optional about hcl HOT 5 CLOSED

What do you mean for backwards compatibility? Did we introduce a backwards incompatible change somewhere since HCL was made? Can you show an example?

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I mean, if people have old style configs with comma-delimited lists, making commas optional will still work for the old.

What I'm proposing is this:

• Old style: [10, 20, 30], ["a", "b", "c"]
• New style: [10 20 30], ["a" "b" "c"]

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We've never had non-comma delimited lists, so I'm still confused what you're talking about, sorry. Even if we did, that was never intended. I'm not going to support that.

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Sorry if I was too confusing. I never meant that you did support that. I proposed that you make commas in lists optional. Those who find configurations more readable with commas can still use them. And the others won't be forced to use them.

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Ah, I don't see any real use case for that other than style and a style I don't really agree with. Why make it more confusing? One syntax to do one thing is better than ambiguity.

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