[phobos] Plans for std.json

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/24/10 1:05 CDT, Robert Jacques wrote:
> Unfortunately, This[string] currently causes an ICE. There's some
> documentation in Variant that self referential types are not yet
> supported. Also, I've found that using opDispatch to mimic fields, i.e.
> foo.bar instead of foo["bar"], to be quite convenient. Would this be a
> good feature candidate for inclusion in VariantN? Also, I'm not up to
> date regarding VariantN bugs. Are they things you can work around, or
> are they blocked by compiler issues?

Definitely that issue needs to be looked at. I think it's a compiler 
bug, but then I didn't try real hard to avoid it.

Building on Algebraic would save a lot of work, and any further 
improvements in Algebraic will help json too.

>> * The function parseJSON takes a range but not by reference, which
>> means there is no way for the caller to know the new range position
>> after having parsed one json object.
>
> My parser takes an input range by ref.
>
>> * toJSON returns a string, which is inefficient for large objects. It
>> should take an output range.
>
> My writer takes an output range by ref. I have a compact writer, a
> pretty print writer and a toJsonString convenience function.

Then you may want to submit your code for review.


Andrei