On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 06:34:45PM -0700, Martin Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Alan Gutierrez <a...@prettyrobots.com> wrote:
> > Have you ever written Node.js code that counts on the implementation
> > specific
> > Object behavior that mantains the insertion order of properties?
> >
> > It could be useful in configuration, for example, to specify fallbacks if
> > the
> > first choice isn't available.
> >
> > var conf = { database: { pg: "psql://localhost/database"
> > , mysql: "mysql://localhost/database" } };
>
> I'm probably missing something in what you're trying to achieve, but
> at least in this case, why not just use an array?
>
> var conf = {
> database: [
> { id: "pg", url: "psql://localhost/database" },
> { id: "mysql", url: "mysql://localhost/database" }
> ]
> };
Thank you all for responding. Asking because I saw the words "de facto standard"
and wondered if that meant that somewhere someone had found a use case for it
that was compelling. This was a suggestion, that maybe people were using it to
create a trailer-park DSL with JSON. I couldn't think of anything more
compelling.
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