Gah. In YAML, `foo` is equivalent to JSON's "foo" but `123` is equivalent to `123`. So strings that look like numbers are silently converted
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I've now worked on several systems where the JSON was so big that avoiding pretty-printing was a performance win!
I'm trying mini projects to exercise my new programming language and find gaps.
So far I've done fizzbuzz, JSON parsing, and a crude scheme interpreter.
Any ideas for additional projects? They need to be well scoped because I keep finding e.g. stdlib crashes.
I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics.
It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.