On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 19:47:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
The differences (off the top of my head, there may be more):
- Nobody has to actually write the closing
True for XML too:
1. many editors already autocomplete it, no need to wonder, why
nobody implemented it;
2. if you need a new document fragment, you just copy existing
one and tweak it to new needs; and it's easier and faster this
way with succinct languages too;
- Nobody had to keep the opening/closing in sync
Huh? Never needed that. And it's the same with json and sdl: if
you add new brace you need to go find the appropriate brace,
after which to insert new brace, and there you see lisp-style
stairway of indiscernible braces (with commas, yay).
- The closing takes up zero bytes
I'd say, it's dwarfed by everything else especially indentation.
- Nobody has to actually look at the closing if they want to
reduce the visual clutter: Ie, viewing it is an optional thing.
And get lost, when it doesn't cut it.
Oh and it makes no sense to add a non-trivial editor support for
json, because it's a format buried in a dark corner of javascript
ecosystem, and even there it's used as a serialization format for
data exchange (that's because it doesn't have comments) instead
of long-living manually written documents.
