Allow unquoted object field names #10

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p · 2020-11-05T03:14:58+01:00

p commented

2020-11-05 03:14:58 +01:00

Just like in jq:

If the keys are "identifier-like", then the quotes can be left off

This is hugely more convenient to write. The highlighter already contains a lot of the necessary parsing code, it just needs to learn to recognize bare words ([a-zA-Z_]*), which we'll simply wrap in strings before passing the whole chunk to Jansson like we do now.

Of course, the shell could make use of way more extensions but:

C is the wrong language entirely to build anything of such complexity just for fun, and
fuck terminal UI in general.

Just like in `jq`: > If the keys are "identifier-like", then the quotes can be left off This is hugely more convenient to write. The highlighter already contains a lot of the necessary parsing code, it just needs to learn to recognize bare words ([a-zA-Z\_]\*), which we'll simply wrap in strings before passing the whole chunk to Jansson like we do now. Of course, the shell could make use of way more extensions but: 1. C is the wrong language entirely to build anything of such complexity just for fun, and 2. fuck terminal UI in general.

p added this to the v1.4.0 milestone 2020-11-05 03:14:59 +01:00

p self-assigned this 2020-11-05 03:14:59 +01:00

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Reference: p/json-rpc-shell#10