Re: [boost] New JSON library from the maker of Beast!

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:39 AM Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 7:51 AM JF via Boost wrote:

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I know that it is not standard JSON, but do you plan to support comments (// ..., /* ... */)? It would be useful for storing configuration

I used the same approach with the JSON parser that I used with Beast's HTTP parser. That is, a strict parser which strives to adhere to the letter of the spec.

I agree with this approach. The popular nlohmann::json project made the same design decision, and I think their reasoning is quite solid. See here: https://github.com/nlohmann/json#comments-in-json -Vicram