Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'aeson' library

Niklas Hambüchen mail at nh2.me
Wed Sep 18 06:30:08 CEST 2013


On 18/09/13 04:02, Dan Burton wrote:
> Everybody already uses, trusts, and loves aeson.

There's only one thing about it that I don't trust:

"Partial instances" that will call error in pure code and crash my program.

ByteString has such an instance that simply assumes that ByteString is
the same as Text, so it calls Data.Text.Encoding.decodeUtf8 on it.

https://github.com/bos/aeson/issues/126



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