Re: native json parsing

Nested lists would be awesome!

There has already been a discussion on GitHub: 
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/505.

I've tried to argue that we shouldn't suddenly reclaim existing valid 
characters. Instead we could extend the semantics of $ to allow for more 
control sequences.

In that sense, I have suggested to use ${ and $} instead of plain { and 
} as nested list delimiters.

Similarly, we could finally support $@ as a placeholder for all 
arguments or even introduce argument slices like $[1:4].

Christof

On 2/10/2026 8:40 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig via Pd-list wrote:
> Am 10. Februar 2026 00:40:27 MEZ schrieb Dan Wilcox <[email protected]>:
>> I don't know if I would be in favor of something built-in that is specifically JSON, but maybe more allow for nesting lists.
>>
>>
> this.
>
> and while this was shot down when I proposed it back then, I still think that using curlies for nested lists would be the simplest solution.
>
>
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