Draft PEP on RSON configuration file format

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Tue Mar 2 22:20:34 EST 2010


Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Mar 2, 5:36 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
> cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> You seem to be taking the position that if you start with a config file
>> config.json, it is "too hard to edit", but then by renaming it to
>> config.rson it magically becomes easier to edit. That *is* ludicrous.
> 
> No, but that seems to be the position you keep trying to ascribe to
> me: "Wait a minute... if JSON is too hard to edit, and RSON is a
> *superset* of JSON, that means by definition every JSON file is also a
> valid RSON file.  Since JSON is too hard to manually edit, so is
> RSON."

Huh?  That's the argument being used against you, not the argument being 
ascribed to you.  You're getting confused about something, somewhere.

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