Re: guile-sjson's first public release (v0.2)!

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Thompson, David writes:

> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Christopher Allan Webber
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'd be open to the change... if we're going to do the change, we should
>> do it now, when I'm pretty much the only user.  I wonder what David
>> Thompson thinks?
>
> FWIW this is what Racket does, so there is precedent there, but Mark
> Weaver and I explicitly avoided doing this with (ice-9 json) because
> vectors are 1) imperative and 2) less convenient to process and
> generate.  For example, you can no longer use unquote-splicing, which
> is unfortunate.  Furthermore, if you have a list of objects that you
> want to serialize, you now need to do the extra step of calling
> list->vector.  Lists are the more natural data structure in Scheme for
> sequences, so Mark and I thought it was best to stick with them rather
> than use vectors even though vectors are more array-like.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - Dave

I think that's the right call.  It also means having to not rewrite a
lot of my code. ;)

So things will stay as they are there!