Re: [Chicken-users] Why does the JSON egg map JSON structs to Scheme vectors instead of alists?

[Christian Kellermann]

* Vok Vojwo <address@hidden> [111127 14:16]:
> (assoc* (json->alist json) "feed" "title" "$t")
> ;; => "Official Google External Developer Events"
> 
> Is there any reason why the JSON egg creates vectors of pairs?
> 
> If not I would suggest to fix it to make it more schemish.

I agree with you and I can only guess the original author's intentions.
My guess is that it makes it possible to write back to json, since
alists are already used for representing a different datatype.
Surely the choice could have been made in a more convenient way...

Kind regards,

Christian 

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