[erlang-questions] json_to_term EEP

Tony Garnock-Jones tonyg@REDACTED
Wed Jul 30 21:44:50 CEST 2008


Anthony Shipman wrote:
> How about 
>      {json, [ {...} ] }
> so that we know what we are looking at and can check it in function argument 
> patterns etc.

rfc4627.erl uses {obj, [{Key, Value}, ...]}.

Personally, I'm in favour of the uniform option {[{Key, Value}, ...]}, 
with the empty object being {[]}. It permits uniform treatment of the 
list of key-value pairs without a gratuitous special case. I find myself 
reading it as if JSON objects are delimited by a new kind of brackets, 
"{[" and "]}".

Tony



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