Re:Eon: Extensible Object Notation
by olliej on Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:48AM
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It has extensibility by having `'{' blargh '}'` be "don't parse the content between the braces". That isn't meaningfully different from just using strings/CDATA in json/xml.
The `blargh` between braces also can't contain closing braces - so they're not even fully generic.
Also, personal pet peeve - it should have a way to specify floating point values in binary, as there are many floating point values with textual representations that are massive and/or don't have numeric representation (nan, infinity, signaling variants)
Re:Eon: Extensible Object Notation
by galaxyLogic on Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:48AM
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Looks very close to JavaScript.
I think JavaScript literal object notation might be a great choice
for representing data. Then those who program in JS would have everything needed already?
The Haskell implementation is elite too
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hedn
Lots over overlap here with Clojure’s Extensible Data Notation (edn).
The `blargh` between braces also can't contain closing braces - so they're not even fully generic.
Also, personal pet peeve - it should have a way to specify floating point values in binary, as there are many floating point values with textual representations that are massive and/or don't have numeric representation (nan, infinity, signaling variants)
I think JavaScript literal object notation might be a great choice for representing data. Then those who program in JS would have everything needed already?