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by mikhailfranco
680 days ago
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One classic example is JSON. It is possible to just treat commas as whitespace. It makes implementation so much easier. It accepts missing, trailing and repeated commas. It makes elements uniform. It ignores many common errors that arise from typos or cut'n'paste. It makes JSON writers simpler, by removing the first/last special case. A JSON parser that treats commas as whitespace can be two dozen lines in most programming languages - if you do not want line/column, chapter and verse, for the remaining error messages. |
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