[erlang-questions] New project: ZJ - A tiny JSON encoder/decoder

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On 2018年6月26日火曜日 16時44分08秒 JST you wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It looks promising, thank you for sharing!
> 
> However, I’d like to suggest to consider mapping `null -> null`.
> I’ve been raising a similar issue to jsx as well.
> 
> The atom `undefined` is used by many library to express undefined result.
> Please consider its usage
> 
> JSON -> Erlang:
> * null -> undefined
> 
> Erlang -> JSON
> * undefined -> null

Hmmm... That changes semantics a bit.

I understand what you're saying, but that would mean:

Erlang -> JSON
- null      -> null
- undefined -> null

Is that really desirable? Seems a bit "fuzzy"/surprising.
I'm not faced with this anywhere, so I really don't know.

Thoughts from anyone else?

-Craig