On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Alan Malloy <a...@malloys.org> wrote: > 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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