Re: JSON Function Bike Shedding

On 02/17/2013 01:19 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2013, at 6:33 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> No, then we don't have a variadic version. You are going to have to accept that we can't make one function name cover all of this.
> Well, for me, I would rather specify an array than call a function with a different name. But it’s six of one, half-dozen of another, really, as long as it all works.
>
>

I am going to go the way that involves the least amount of explicit
casting or array construction. So get_path() stays, but becomes
non-variadic. get() can take an int or variadic text[], so you can do:

get(myjson,0)
get(myjson,'f1')
get(myjson,'f1','2','f3')
get_path(myjson,'{f1,2,f3}')

cheers

andrew