std.json sucessor

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/13/14, 10:21 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 13.10.2014 16:36, schrieb Daniel Murphy:
>> "Sönke Ludwig"  wrote in message news:m1ge08$10ub$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> Oh, I've read "both line and column into a single uint", because of
>>> "four words per token" - considering that "word == 16bit", but Andrei
>>> obviously meant "word == (void*).sizeof". If simply using uint instead
>>> of size_t is meant, then that's of course a different thing.
>>
>> I suppose a 4GB single-line json file is still possible.
>
> If we make that assumption, we'd have to change it from size_t to ulong,
> but my feeling is that this case (format error at >4GB && human tries to
> look at that place using an editor) should be rare enough that we can
> make the compromise in favor of a smaller struct size.

Agreed. -- Andrei