That would work with some kind of importJSON function, that will automatically 
convert a JSON into a valid Nix expression with literals.

-------- Original message --------
From: jeaye <cont...@jeaye.com> 
Date: 28/02/2016  16:37  (GMT+01:00) 
To: Anand Patil <anand.prabhakar.pa...@gmail.com> 
Cc: nix-dev <nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl> 
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] NixON initiative 

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:11:15PM +0000, Anand Patil wrote:
> What about using some kind of JSON notation for this? There are some
> mismatches between JSON and Nix primitives; but on the other hand JSON is
> easy to parse and generate from every language, and many people are
> familiar with it.

I wholeheartedly concur; please don't make another JSON-like format.
JSON is so well supported in so many languages and, I believe, it does
everything we'd need.
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