[erlang-questions] jiffy encoding

[Aggelos Giantsios]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Mike Oxford <moxford@REDACTED> wrote:

> From the docs...
> {[{foo, bar}]}             -> {"foo": "bar"} -> {[{<<"foo">>, <<"bar">>}]}
>
> Why does jiffy need the extra "tuple list" syntax?
> Anyone happen to know?
>

Hello!

I believe the notion is that an orddict is converted to a JSON dictionary.
I guess in order to distinguish an orddict from a regular list, they wrap
the orddict in a tuple.

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