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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: mail@daniel-mendler.de, philipk@posteo.net, 55278@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55278: json-parse-string
Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 19:20:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1noCg4-0002zG-5q@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8079f1s.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon,  09 May 2022 12:27:27 +0200)

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  > The two libraries aren't really compatible without reparsing the entire
  > parse tree returned by them.  For instance, the C library returns:

  > (json-parse-string "null")
  > => :null

  > While json.el says:

  > (json-read-from-string "null")
  > => nil

No deep difference between them is visible in this example.
What is the a deep difference? 

Is there a reason why they _must_ give different output formats
or is that difference just for historical reasons?
Could we make a version of the Lisp code
that produces the same output as jansson?
It would be slower but that is better than not running.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-09 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-05 18:38 bug#55278: 29.0.50; OSM package Richard Stallman
2022-05-05 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 12:15   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-06 23:19   ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-07  3:32     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-07  6:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 23:08       ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-08  8:42 ` bug#55278: json-parse-string Daniel Mendler
2022-05-08 23:39   ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-09 10:27     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 10:39       ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-09 10:45         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 10:57           ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-09 23:20         ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-16 23:25         ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-17 19:12           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-05-18 22:20             ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-09 23:20       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-05-09 23:20       ` Richard Stallman

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