> - null is the symbol 'null
Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts about using #nil instead?
Tomas
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Attached is a patch that adds a new (web json) module. Some may
remember that I submitted a patch back in 2015 (time flies, eh?) for
an (ice-9 json) module that never made it in. Well, 10 years is a long
time and Guile still doesn't have a built-in JSON module. Third party
libraries like guile-json
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> wrote:
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> > - null is the symbol 'null
>
> Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts about using #nil instead?
My original patch from 10 years ago did this. Mark Weaver then
explained to me that #nil was added specifically for the purpose
Hi David,
Thanks for the patch. I'm just trying to understand: Why do we need a
JSON module in guile itself? Isn't guile-json, the way it is as an
external library, good enough?
> API that can read/write JSON to/from a port using only Scheme data
> types that have read syntax (i.e. no hash tabl
Hi Arun,
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM Arun Isaac wrote:
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> Thanks for the patch. I'm just trying to understand: Why do we need a
> JSON module in guile itself? Isn't guile-json, the way it is as an
> external library, good enough?
I mean, Guile doesn't *need* to include anything, but JSON is
