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An argument as old and unresolvable as tabs vs. spaces.

Delimiter-last is just more intuitive, it’s how we do it in natural language (I like bacon, butter, eggs, and cheese).

There are some benefits to delimiter-first, but its just not worth the effort to switch.




It would be nice if we could always just use an uppercase character to indicate the beginning of an item (sentence).




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