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Open Source Data Library for data serialization.
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Investigate if going towards hjson is a good idea. #45

Closed wc-duck closed 6 years ago

wc-duck commented 8 years ago

https://hjson.org/

There has been some requests of "loosening" the json input to DL and I can absolutely understand why.

The only thing that I do not like about it is that by doing that DL will not be readable by "any conforming json parser" such as pythons json module etc. However that might not be a problem and it is worth more to have a simple format for humans.

The format would still be writable by any tool so that should be fine.

If there is anyone reading, feel free to comment :)

joeldevahl commented 8 years ago

I would be perfectly happy if the typelib and data text reader would accept hjson or some json superset. Writing on the other hand could still be json only so that exported data can be shared. The user can then take a conscious choice to write in a human simplified form.

wc-duck commented 8 years ago

Now that I have rewritten the parser for text-data it should be quite simple to add all the features that hjson supports.

I have thought about making it configurable to have "strict" parsing, but I think that will just make the code unnecessary complex for no real gain.

Now I only have to find time to do this ;)

Tasks that need to be done before this can be started:

wc-duck commented 6 years ago

Closing this and replacing it with issue #54