[Seaside-dev] When is Symbol>>#= not Symbol>>#==?

[John O'Keefe]

OK, I'm off to revert my update for Issue 240.

John O'Keefe [|], Principal Smalltalk Architect, Instantiations Inc.


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, John O'Keefe
> <wembley.instantiations at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I guess the question is 'What do consumers of the JSON parser expect when
> > parsing names?'  I really don't know enough about JSON to argue one way
> or
> > the other on which is correct, but if consumers expect Symbols, then
> > returning Strings will break some code elsewhere.
>
> The JSONParser is just a default parser that returns nested
> dictionaries and ordered collections of literal types. It is supposed
> to be subclassed for specific uses to instantiate real objects. The
> parser is new in Seaside 2.9, so there are no users. I plan to use it
> to serialize Javascript event objects and make it much simpler to get
> the event properties to Seaside.
>
> Cheers,
> Lukas
>
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