gwking a year ago

It is the design of JSON! Which is a reflection of the same dynamic typing choice made in the original design of Javascript.

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  • mrguyorama a year ago

    They, uh, still aren't wrong hah.

    Tell me again why we somehow standardized on sending the equivalent of JSObject.toString() for everything? Especially when "standardized" isn't

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gpderetta a year ago

how would you represent an arbitrary JSON array in python then? A potentially heterogeneous list seems the obvious solution.

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  • bpshaver a year ago

    Why would I want to do that? I'm rarely ingesting arbitrary JSON. Rather I'm designing my data structures in a sensible way and then maybe serializing them to JSON. Just because JSON can represent heterogenous lists doesn't mean it is a good idea to use heterogenous lists in my programs.

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    • gpderetta a year ago

      The JSON spec does not require a schema. If you want to write a library that can support any valid JSON you have little options. That's useful if you are implementing something like jq just to give an example.

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