Re: [Json] Schemas & so on

[John Cowan <[e-mail]>]

Phillip Hallam-Baker scripsit:

> I think syntactic sugar does actually matter. That is I see a big
> difference between something like
> 
> int MyField;
> 
> and something like this
> 
> {"MyField" : { "type" : "Integer", "max" : 42, "min" : -32 } }

I agree, but {"MyField": -254} (under a convention by which negative
numbers express signed values, if you need to distinguish signed from
unsigned) is not too bad.

> I think the chances of spotting a blooper in the second is a lot better.

The first, I suppose you mean.

> The reason for having the 'label before declaration' rule is that it
> provides consistency. Every definition has the label first. C has a nasty
> habit of doing this differently for classes and fields/variables. Doing it
> the same way throughout is much cleaner. The label should go first because
> it is always one token while the definition may be a structure.

Every language not heavily under the thumb of C has always used name
before type.

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