Steven Schveighoffer at "Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:23:51 -0500" wrote:
SS> On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:12:24 -0500, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com>
wrote:
>> Steven Schveighoffer:
>>> Tell me how you would parse the following text serialization string for a
>>> string[]:
>>>
>>> hello world how are you
>>>
>>> What if it was a string[][]?
>>>
>>> Compare that to:
>>>
>>> [hello world, [how are, you]]
>>
>> You are missing something:
>>
>> ["hello world", ["how are", "you"]]
SS> For completely unambiguous, yes. But still, I find often that quotes are
more noise than
SS> they are worth when just doing simple printouts. What we want is the
most useful
SS> default.
Commas are even more noise than than quotes. erlang:
[{app, "app1"}, {user, "user1"}, {score, 123456}, {date, 5000000}, {misc,
"foo"}]
But if you just drop commas:
[{app "app1"} {user "user1"} {score 123456} {date 5000000} {misc "foo"}]
SS> -Steve
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