Re: deJSONKit - serialization as JSON from E

Kevin Reid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On May 22, 2009, at 0:40, Tyler Close wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Kevin Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (Hm, though you don't AFAIK have any syntax for cycles?
>
> I avoid representing cycles directly in JSON by snipping the JSON tree
> at the promises. Where a promise appears, I output an "@" element in
> its place. Client code can then  reconstruct the cycle. For example,
>
> resource at: <./#s=1234>:
>
> {
>    "name" : "I am recursive",
>    "self": { "@" : "./#s=1234" }
> }

Right, but there's no syntax to bind (define) #s=1234 within the JSON.

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>
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