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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by kazinator on Sunday April 14, 2019 @12:43AM (#19657649)
Basic S-exp syntax can easily be extended to denote dictionaries. Just like #(...) gives us vectors and #S structures, some #H can provide hash tables.
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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by int_19h on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:21AM (#19657885)
Of course, but then we're not talking about raw S-exps, but something built on top of them. And then you get something like EDN anyway.
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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by kazinator on Sunday April 14, 2019 @08:38AM (#19659041)
> Of course, but then we're not talking about raw S-exps, but something built on top of them.

I don't understand what this means.

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