DRdraegtun·Oct 20, 2017
Here's a link to a another example - https://github.com/humanistic/REN
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REN
The REN human friendly data notation
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4 sourcesI myself use Rebol/Red which I find much easier to use.
Here's a translation of the first example:
test-domain-object: make object! [
created: 2012-02-14/16:40:15+01:00
modified: 2012-02-14/16:40:18+01:00
integer: 39581
float: 73.84789359463944
description: "This is a test"
color: green
tags: [
#two
#beta
#medium
]
bytes: #{afabfdf61d030f43eb67960c0ae9f39f}
boolean: false
]
And there is REN (REadable Notation) which is an attempt to produce a (sub-set) standard so it can be interchanged with other languages - http://pointillistic.com/ren/ | https://github.com/humanistic/REN
In STON – Smalltalk Object Notation (2012)REN: Human-friendly data notation
15 points · Open discussionThe more you try and push JSON along these lines the more it ends up looking like Rebol.
Here are the examples in Rebol:
[
; comments
;; specify rate in requests/second
rate: 1000
; quoting
key: 'value
text: "Look ma, some quotes!"
; path & HTML
path: %\c\windows
inject: <div class="important"></div>
; no need for escapes
space: %\c\windows\foo%20bar.txt
space2: %"\c\windows\foo bar.txt"
; no commas
one: 1
two: 2
; multiline string
haiku: {
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
}
; array/list/block
fav-numbers: [1 2 3 6 42]
; and finally...
name: 'hjson
desc: "Rebol data format"
main: %./lib/rebol.reb
version: 1.0.1
tags: [
json
Read the rest
hjson
rebol
]
; and really finally...
light-switch: on
useful: yes
boolean: true
co-ords: 10x100
ip: 192.168.100.1
date: 1-Jan-1970
]
Of course this shouldn't be a surprise because Douglas Crockford cites Rebol as an influence on JSON.
For those interested have a look at REN (REadable Notation), a subset/dialect of Rebol, which is an attempt to produce a standardised format - https://github.com/humanistic/REN