[erlang-questions] jiffy encoding

[Andrew Ledvina]

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> The reason for the extra tuple list is to distinguish ambiguous cases
> involving empty lists and empty objects. Mochijson takes a different
> approach but something must be done to deal with the Erlang types available.
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> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:05:00 +0300
> From: Aggelos Giantsios <aggelgian@REDACTED <javascript:;>>
> To: Mike Oxford <moxford@REDACTED <javascript:;>>
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> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] jiffy encoding
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> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Mike Oxford <moxford@REDACTED<javascript:;>>
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> > From the docs...
> > {[{foo, bar}]}             -> {"foo": "bar"} -> {[{<<"foo">>,
> <<"bar">>}]}
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> > Why does jiffy need the extra "tuple list" syntax?
> > Anyone happen to know?
> >
>
> Hello!
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> 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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> Aggelos
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