On Dec 19, 9:25 pm, Phil Hagelberg <p...@hagelb.org> wrote:
> JSON as readable Clojure was discussed and shot down a while back, albeit
> with a weirder
> implementation:http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-dev/browse_thread/thread/5b066...
> idea of colons having special treatment in the context of maps is
> rather distasteful to me personally.
>
> -Phil
I agree, this horrifies me. It isn't even as simple as "letting them
be whitespace", because presumably you want (read-string "{a: b}") to
result in (hash-map 'a 'b), but (read-string "{a :b}") to result in
(hash-map 'a :b). So you can't just say they're whitespace - you have
to recognize the context they're in to decide what they attach to, if
anything. The existing behavior is much cleaner.
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