Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'aeson' library

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 2013-09-18 13:39, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> On 2013-09-18 13:26, Thomas Schilling wrote:
>> I'm also +1, though I'd strongly prefer that the instance for
>> ByteString gets dropped before inclusion.
>>
> 
>> The "don't do that" approach is not very Haskelly.  A Char8 ByteString
>> is the same type as a Word8 ByteString, so while you could argue that
>> Char8 is implicitly ASCII, the instance couldn't distinguish it from
>> Word8 ByteStrings where this doesn't make sense. Since JSON doesn't
>> have a standard way of encoding binary data
>> (utf8/base64/base64url/...), external JSON API often may use their own
>> convention, so it's best to require users to be explicit about
>> semantics.
> 
> +1 with removal of BS instance, -0 otherwise.

Sigh... pressed "Send" too fast. Should have said:

+1 with removal of BS instance or explicit opt-in with appropriate
documentation warnings (etc.).

-0 otherwise