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by wongarsu 1904 days ago
Also JSON's complete lack of many commonly used types, and no way to define any new ones.
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mcv 1903 days ago
Isn't that a problem with most of these config languages, though? XML is the only one where I think this might be possible.
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wongarsu 1903 days ago
Allowing you to define types is quite uncommon, but many config languages allow more types than JSON (so more than boolean, number, string, list, dict). Date datatypes are a big one and are provided by about every second JSON variant, in addition to TOML, ION and others.
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