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eiffel_software@..., "Peter Gummer" <p-gummer@...>
wrote:
[...]
> Someone was looking for JSON support in Eiffel a few days ago.
> Wouldn't it be nice if ecf files were JSON rather XML!
I thought JSON was a serialization mechanism only. Does support the
notions of variable state and flow control? If not, then it won't be
adequate for specifying an Eiffel configuration, since you need to be
able to express things like
if target_platform.is_windows then
library_specs.append (WEL)
end
Ace notation was on the right track, but it was trying to impose an
Eiffel syntax onto the traditional declarative style of makefiles.
Better, I think, would be to use Eiffel itself, though I would like it
to be easier to use the language declaratively for problems like this.
Greg C
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