On Sep 7, 2012, at 4:36 AM, Ben Smith-Mannschott wrote: > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've started to document a subset of Clojure's data format in an effort to >> get it more widely used as a data exchange format, e.g. as an alternative to >> JSON. >> >> Please have a look: >> >> https://github.com/richhickey/edn >> >> Rich > > A few questions or things I'm unclear on: > > - The expected result of parsing { 1.0 :a, 1 :b, 1.0M :c } is unclear > to me. Since we're gonna have maps, some more information on expected > equality semantics of edn values is needed.
Yes, on the todo list. > > - nil is not a symbol. A parser seeing «(nil)» is expected to produce > a list of length one containing a single reference to nothing. The > collections used to represent the result of the parse must support > null elements (Google Guava's, for example, generally do not). > I've removed the word 'symbol' from the description. People targeting collections that don't support nulls will have to create a Null object or something similar. Remember, people will be targeting platforms that, unfortunately, don't have symbols, or even integers sometimes, either. > - edn is described as a textual format (sequence of characters). A > word on the expected encoding of serialized representations (sequence > of bytes) would be good. Mandate UTF-8? > Yes. > - Are \uXXXX style Unicode escapes supported? In strings? elsewhere? > Could be. > - Comments appear not to be supported. I know a deliberate choice was > made not to support comments as part of JSON. For use in configuration > files edited by humans, however, this is an inconvenience. Thoughts? > Yes, coming, both ;comments and #_ discard Rich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
