You could interpret {path: "/a/b/c"} as a path literal.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016, 11:06 AM zimbatm <zimb...@zimbatm.com> wrote:
> But we wouldn’t have the path type in JSON anymore ! Hmm maybe that’s a
> good thing actually :p
>
> importJSON = path: builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile path);
>
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 at 15:37 jeaye <cont...@jeaye.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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