On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 08:15:39 UTC, Robert Schadek wrote:
On 08/29/2013 09:51 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
I most points here also apply to std.xml:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Wish_list/std.json Those are not strict
requirements though, I just summarized what I remembered from
old
discussions.
I think, this even extends to access to all semi- and
structured-data.
Think csv, sql nosql, you name it. Something which deserves a
name like
Uniform Access. I don't want to care if data is laid out
differently. I
want to define my struct or class mark the members to fill a
pass it to
somebodies code and don't want to care if its xml, sql or
whatever.
That's a really great point. All of these modules that can't
know the types and structure in advance should probably all use
the same techniques for handling the situation. Perhaps a new
module to unify all this stuff is in order.
I seem to recall Adam D. Ruppe's "Is this D or is this
Javascript?" thread[1] having some nice tricks to deal with
dynamically typed data.
1.
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/kuxfkakrgjaofkrdv...@forum.dlang.org
