<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<span></span><br>
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Message: 9<br>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:05:00 +0300<br>
From: Aggelos Giantsios <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'aggelgian@gmail.com')">aggelgian@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Mike Oxford <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'moxford@gmail.com')">moxford@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] jiffy encoding<br>
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Mike Oxford <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'moxford@gmail.com')">moxford@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> From the docs...<br>
> {[{foo, bar}]} -> {"foo": "bar"} -> {[{<<"foo">>, <<"bar">>}]}<br>
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> Why does jiffy need the extra "tuple list" syntax?<br>
> Anyone happen to know?<br>
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Hello!<br>
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I believe the notion is that an orddict is converted to a JSON dictionary.<br>
I guess in order to distinguish an orddict from a regular list, they wrap<br>
the orddict in a tuple.<br>
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Aggelos<br>
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