On tor, 2009-12-31 at 11:12 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> David E. Wheeler wrote:
> > On Dec 31, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I think the primary use will be to load a JSON value into Perl or Python
> >> and process it there. So a json type that doesn't have any interesting
> >> operators doesn't sound useless to me. The features I would like to get
> >> out of it are input validation and encoding handling and smooth
> >> integration with said languages.
> >>
> >
> > What about access to various parts of a JSON data structure? Or is that just asking for too much trouble up-front?
> IMNSHO it's essential. I think Peter's approach of ignoring this
> requirement is extremely shortsighted.
Whose requirement is it? I'm not ignoring it, but so far no one has
actually said that it is a requirement and why.