Comments on: A SRFI-10-style extension to JSON http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/a-srfi-10-style-extension-to-json What happens at LShift Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:51:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: tonyg http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/a-srfi-10-style-extension-to-json#comment-16 Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:05:42 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/a-srfi-10-style-extension-to-json#comment-16 <p>Actually, I <i>don't</i> think JSON should be executable javascript. I think it serves my purpose better if it's just a data language, with only very limited code-execution ability.</p> <p>Function call syntax is another option for this read-time-evaluation extension, though - it may not even be harder to parse. (The immediate attraction of the @ prefix is firstly that it's very easy to parse, and secondly that it doesn't look like function application, since it isn't really function application.)</p> Actually, I don’t think JSON should be executable javascript. I think it serves my purpose better if it’s just a data language, with only very limited code-execution ability.

Function call syntax is another option for this read-time-evaluation extension, though - it may not even be harder to parse. (The immediate attraction of the @ prefix is firstly that it’s very easy to parse, and secondly that it doesn’t look like function application, since it isn’t really function application.)

]]> by: Paul Crowley http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/a-srfi-10-style-extension-to-json#comment-15 Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:31:53 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/a-srfi-10-style-extension-to-json#comment-15 <p>Useful, and a need I've felt myself in AJAX-like applications. But shouldn't the syntax look more like a programming language? JSON should be executable JavaScript; it shouldn't be hard to use syntax that looks like a function call, and then the function could look up and return the so-named object.</p> Useful, and a need I’ve felt myself in AJAX-like applications. But shouldn’t the syntax look more like a programming language? JSON should be executable JavaScript; it shouldn’t be hard to use syntax that looks like a function call, and then the function could look up and return the so-named object.

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