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. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
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