markdrago

awesome quote from article: "Why do something reasonable when you have the opportunity to do something ridiculous?" ... explains so much code ...

FWIW the 'tag' concept in Go alleviates concern #2.

Info regarding tags (scroll a bit): http://golang.org/ref/spec#Struct_types

How tags are used by the built-in JSON encoding library: http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Marshal

Of course, just because this kind of thing can be handled with tags doesn't mean that people will actually know to use them or actually use them correctly.

It may be more appropriate to store the comments in extended attributes rather than in dotfiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes

Here's a TED talk by Regina Dugan that discusses these flights as well:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/regina_dugan_from_mach_20_g...