Matt Wette <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sep 21, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> David Thompson <[email protected]> skribis:
>
> JSON is an commonly encountered format when writing web
> applications,
> much like XML, and I think it would be a good idea if the core
> Guile
> distribution had an SXML equivalent for JSON. This patch
> introduces
> such an interface in the (ice-9 json) module.
>
>
> There’s also guile-json, bindings to a C library, but I think it’s
> better to have a pure Scheme implementation, and to have it in
> Guile
> core.
>
> I wonder if we should introduce it in 2.0. What do people think?
>
>
> I would be happy to have this in the core; I have used it.
Agreed.
> 1. There is a minor typo in the source: should be "denominator.”
Indeed, good catch!
> 2. The comments say integers are converted to exact and floating point
> to inexact, but the code will convert 1.0 to exact.
In Scheme terminology, 1.0 is an integer.
> Would it work to use the parser from (language ecmascript parse),
> possibly restricting it? Or do you think it’s more viable to have
> a
> separate parser because there are too many differences?
>
>
> I vote for separate parser, the json.scm file is lightweight.
> json.scm.go is < 17k.
Agreed. The simplicity also allows confidence that it can safely handle
potentially malicious JSON data.
Mark
