Re: [Json] Human JSON (Hjson)

[Christian Zangl <[e-mail]>]

On 2016-05-27 00:07, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

>     You still have a problem with the backslash in strings. On Windows
>     you can't just copy&paste a path because all \ need to be escaped.
>     Also config files sometimes contain regular expressions and having
>     to escape the \ makes them unreadable.
>
>     That's why Hjson has quoteless strings that are raw strings ending
>     at LF.
>
>
> I don't like quoteless strings with spaces. I think they are going to
> cause serious problems.

Please explain.

> What I suggest instead is using the convention Windows itself uses, the
> 'verbatim string literal'.
>
> var path = @"C:\Users\Phillip\OneDrive\Repositories\Dalek Plans"
>
> is equivalent to:
>
> var path = "C:\\Users\\Phillip\\OneDrive\\Repositories\\Dalek Plans"
>
> The big limitation on @ strings is that the only escape you are left
> with is for quotes which are doubled up:
>
> "quoted" is written """quoted"""

@"" does not help readability. Not having quotes is IMO more elegant, 
makes copy&pasting easier and requires no explanation.