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2 points by hjek 2327 days ago | link | parent

Nice example. (So much easier to tell what's going on when you have these brief examples)

Actually the Racket docs[0] clarifies the situation with null in JSON:

    (json-null) → any/c

    (json-null jsnull) → void?
      jsnull : any/c

> This parameter determines the default Racket value that corresponds to a JSON “null”. By default, it is the 'null symbol. In some cases a different value may better fit your needs, therefore all functions in this library accept a #:null keyword argument for the value that is used to represent a JSON “null”, and this argument defaults to (json-null).

If you set the JSON null to nil before running your example, it works as you'd expect:

    arc> ($.json-null nil)
    #<void>
    arc> (= x (w/instring in "{\"foo\": null}" ($.read-json in)))
    #hash((foo . nil))
    arc> (if x!foo (prn "error"))
    nil

I think we should get rid of json.rkt and use the Racket built-in. It's way better documented, and we should use that one. (But I'm not going to delete json.rkt myself, particularly when I know someone is working with it.)

[0]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/json/index.html