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

[Christian Kellermann]

* Vok Vojwo <address@hidden> [111127 14:37]:
> 2011/11/27 Christian Kellermann <address@hidden>:
> >
> > My guess is that it makes it possible to write back to json, since
> > alists are already used for representing a different datatype.
> 
> But json-write does not accept alists as values. This
> 
> (json-write (vector (cons "x" (list (cons "a" 1) (cons "b" 2)))))
> 
> throws the following error:
> 
> Error: Invalid JSON object in json-write: ("a" . 1)

This is true. I mistook them for lists, which are already used.
Sorry for the noise.

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