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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guile-sjson's first public release (v0.2)!
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:57:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfacdfCcqSTyamzG==1Qx6v33tKTMbfg9eFZOQ=JDJcGeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r30fu86o.fsf@dustycloud.org>

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Christopher Allan Webber
<cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:

> I'd be open to the change... if we're going to do the change, we should
> do it now, when I'm pretty much the only user.  I wonder what David
> Thompson thinks?

FWIW this is what Racket does, so there is precedent there, but Mark
Weaver and I explicitly avoided doing this with (ice-9 json) because
vectors are 1) imperative and 2) less convenient to process and
generate.  For example, you can no longer use unquote-splicing, which
is unfortunate.  Furthermore, if you have a list of objects that you
want to serialize, you now need to do the extra step of calling
list->vector.  Lists are the more natural data structure in Scheme for
sequences, so Mark and I thought it was best to stick with them rather
than use vectors even though vectors are more array-like.

Hope this helps,

- Dave



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-26 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-25  4:18 guile-sjson's first public release (v0.2)! Christopher Allan Webber
2017-04-25  4:54 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-04-26  4:03   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-04-26  5:14     ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-04-26 14:55       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-04-26 13:57     ` Thompson, David [this message]
2017-04-26 14:57       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-04-25 13:06 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-04-26  3:55   ` Christopher Allan Webber

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