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Re: [Json] Schema Requirements (Was: Re: Nudging the English-language vs. formalisms discussion forward)

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 20 February 2014 22:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Schema Requirements (Was: Re: Nudging the English-language vs. formalisms discussion forward)
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Pete Cordell <petejson@codalogic.com> wrote:
>> So far so good.  But if you make every type extensible by default,
>> then you're polluting those C structs and the generated code even if
>> mostly you don't need extensibility -- this is the PITA.  IMO
>> extensibility needs to be requested explicitly, but then the problem
>> you run into is people forgetting to do so.
>
> A PITA, true, but not as big a PITA as when somebody forgets it or convinces
> themselves that they're never going to need it.  In my experience change is
> the only constant in data structures!

Maybe so, but then you need to make sure that people don't extend
structures and expect extensions to be critical.  One way or another
you depend on ppl knowing what they're doing when they extend
protocols.  Anyways, I'm convincing myself that this (extensibility,
explicit or implicit) is a minor detail.

Nico
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