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Have you heard of S-expressions? Whitespace optional: (World (Asia (China 1409517397) (India 1339180127) (Indonesia 263991379))) With
by pgt 8y ago
Have you heard of S-expressions? Whitespace optional:
(World
(Asia
(China 1409517397)
(India 1339180127)
(Indonesia 263991379)))
With an editor that supports Paredit or Parinfer, it's impossible to create an invalid tree, because you manipulate the structure of the tree (nodes and leaves) instead of manipulating error-prone text.
- mbostock 8y agoParinfer is very cool! If you’re willing to use a custom editor for trees, you can clearly offer better usability than a standard text editor. But having a usable data format for standard text editors is also nice.
- joseph8th 8y agoI'll see your snark and raise you two, throwing Emacs in for good measure. ;) Have you heard of org-export-json? [1] Have you heard of json.el? [2] [1] https://github.com/mattduck/org-toggl-py/blob/master/org-export-json.el https://github.com/mattduck/org-toggl-py/blob/master/org-exp... [2] http://tess.oconnor.cx/2006/03/json.el http://tess.oconnor.cx/2006/03/json.el