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Replace // with # for line comments #158

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The Terraform HCL documentation states that the # is the preferred and default setting for single line comments:
https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/syntax/configuration.html#comments

The Terraform HCL documentation states that the # is the preferred and default setting for single line comments:
https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/syntax/configuration.html#comments
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scarolan commented Oct 1, 2021

The HCL docs are a bit more ambiguous about this:
https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl/blob/main/hclsyntax/spec.md#comments-and-whitespace

From a practical point of view I'd guess that 95% of HCL users are editing Terraform code so it makes more sense to default to # instead of //

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alexdima commented Oct 8, 2021

Thank you!

@alexdima alexdima added this to the September 2021 milestone Oct 8, 2021
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Thank you!

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