> On Nov 15, 2015, at 10:05, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 2015-11-15 07:54, Dan Partelly wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I was looking at the new facility of dumping JSON,XML from many utils in base and after some funny minutes, I couldn't stop ask myself g Ok, this is funny , but why ? g And I couldn't find a real answer. Ill outline what I think: >> >> >> 1. Undoubtedly, it makes base code slightly harder to understand and maintain. > > I am not sure that libxo actually makes the code any harder to > understand and maintain. It might actually make it slightly better. > > replacing: > > printf("%s %s %d\n", foo, bar, number); > > with: > > xo_emit("{:foo/%s} {:bar/%s} {:number/%d}", foo, bar, number); > > it not really hurting much. That's by and large true, but there are other APIs that need to be called on exit (xo_finish?) and in other scenarios where flushing, etc is needed. If you don't do that, you don't get the output you expect (which broke uptime/w several months ago..). Also, typos with the meta language into the xo_emit calls have bit is more than once ;(.Received on Sun Nov 15 2015 - 17:10:39 UTC
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