On 24 April 2012 01:57, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, i'm not subscribed to that list.
>
> Anyways..
> since i late on the party.. just wanna put my 2 cents here:
>
> you don't need a literal dictionary syntax to be able to (de)serialize
> dictionaries.
>
> Just a simple example:
>
> we start from:
>
> #( propertyName value )
>
> ok, some values can be arrays:
>
> #( propertyName ( array of values) )
>
> and some values can be dictionaries:
>
> #( propertyName #dict ( key1 value1 key2 value2 ... ) )
>
> and to avoid ambugility, you can just put #symbol, to indicate that
> next element is symbol:
>
> #( propertyName #symbol #dict)
>
> so it won't try to construct a dictionary, but just use #dict as a
> symbol value for propery,
> same for #symbol itself:
>
> #(propertyName #symbol #symbol)
>
> ... and of course there can be numerous other ways for doing that.
>
>
and sure.. you're free to introduce any other keywords to meet your
needs... i.e.
#( top #point (10 20))
will produce:
{ #top. 10@20 }.
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.
