Tyru wrote:
> >> Sorry Bram, I forgot to send this mail to vim_dev.
> >> Send again with +alpha about problems of current JSON features.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> What do you think about this?
> >> >
> >> > I don't want to spend much time discussing this. v:null and v:none are
> >> > needed just like JavaScript has null and undefined.
> >> >
> >> > I was thinking of taking this a step further to a more efficient
> >> > encoding that is similar to Javascript. Unfortunately I haven't been
> >> > able to find a specification. I thought it was used in combination with
> >> > protocol buffers. Besides empty entries in an array, it also removes
> >> > the quotes around object item names. It's more efficient and doesn't
> >> > drop any functionality. We could add protocol buffer support, but let's
> >> > leave that for some other time.
> >> >
> >> > Also keep in mind that when you want to stick to the JSON standard
> >> > (well, one of them), you should not write the string yourself but use a
> >> > library to create it. Arguments that it's hard to type or spot a
> >> > mistake are hardly relevant.
> >>
> >> Okay.
> >> Now I know you seem to follow JavaScript syntax rather than JSON standard.
> >
> > True. Perhaps we should split this and add jsencode() / jsdecode().
>
> Sounds great!
> Do you have the plan to add jsencode() / jsdecode() ?
> Or, will you merge the patch for those functions if I write?
Feel free to make a patch.
> >> But please remind JSON is not only for JavaScript.
> >> It might be used for a communication with Vim and scripts, external
> >> commands, and so on.
> >>
> >> And more, currently, 'jsonencode({"key": v:none})' produces output
> >> '{"key":}'.
> >> This is not even a correct JavaScript syntax.
> >
> > I'll fix that.
>
> Thanks!
> Now I confirmed that 7.4.1269 raises an E474 error for the expression.
> But yet it seems to return the string ('{"key":}').
> Is it intentional?
When there is an error it returns what it has. Would it be better to
return nothing?
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