[erlang-questions] Why EEP-0018 "JSON bifs" (and conforming libraries) are "wrong" about object encoding (i.e. `[{}]`)

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 28/08/2014, at 7:48 AM, Chris Pacejo wrote:
> But when sending this data on the wire, you want it to be *compact*,
> not richly indexed.  So to support efficient access, you inevitably
> need to restructure the data coming off the wire *anyway*.  (Not to
> mention that not restructuring data couples both sides of your
> implementation to the wire format and to each other, making it brittle
> in the face of future changes.)

+1