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14:41:53
edwlan[m]
At least that’s where I’d look first, I don’t remember if it can parse relative date strings like that
18:16:06
jackdaniel
NotThatRPG_: json libraries are almost as common as testing frameworks so it is a reason for celebration
18:16:48
NotThatRPG_
@jackdaniel: Yes, at the announcement of a new JSON library I will go into mourning for a two week period.
18:17:58
NotThatRPG_
fiddlerwoaroof: I feel that should be added to the channel description string that we all see when we log in!
18:18:32
fiddlerwoaroof
The issue I have with a lot of these parsing libraries is that they couple the output datastructure to the parser
18:19:59
yitzi
Being guilty of writing JSON lib myself....I shouldn't criticize. Then nobody had attempted the JSON test suite before mine along with actual deficiencies with the others.
18:20:28
fiddlerwoaroof
When I've written parsers (for EDN and the iCal format so far), I've tried to write them against a protocol for constructing a result.
18:27:41
yitzi
Don't forget "iteration" libraries. Everybody has to write one of those too. Considering I am working on two of them simultaneously with a third already in quicklisp, I think I deserve extra credit....or demerits if you wish.
18:31:48
fiddlerwoaroof
The main part is a bunch of point-free constructs that include a bunch of iteration utilities
18:32:04
fiddlerwoaroof
Then there's a beta section with an implementation of what Clojure calls transducers
19:39:01
jcowan
There's more than one way to write a JSON library, depending on whether you get a sequence, a fold, a tuneable object, or a fixed object.
19:54:15
NotThatRPG
edwlan[m]: The profusion of libraries for the same task? I'm not a fan because the libraries typically do 80% of what they claim to do, and you never know when you will run into the other 20%. Also, these one-person/one-library libraries often become abandonware.
20:00:58
jcowan
Up to a point, Minister. You don't want to depend on an abandoned cryptographic library, for example.
20:07:18
NotThatRPG
edwlan[m]: I use lisp libraries in my work, and I don't have the time to fix all of the abandoned and broken ones. Also, it's generally not obvious when and where a library is broken. A dismaying number of them give you GIGO instead of raising an error for something that is unfinished.
20:17:19
aeth
or other data of the wrong type, which will fail only when it meets a function that can't use it, not when it is first added.