Re: JSON Function Bike Shedding

On 03/18/2013 12:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> One wrinkle in this picture is the variadic forms of extraction which
> don't lend themselves nicely to use with an operator. We could decide to
> do away with those altogether, or come up with a better name. I'm loath
> to use "json_path" since it's a name used for something similar but
> different elsewhere. I do think it's valuable to have the variadic form,
> though, and I'd be sad to see it go.

Given that the variadic form is meant to be the foundation of future
tree-based indexing of JSON values, I really don't want to do without
it. Plus, I'd be forced to reimplement it in my own code.

But the name does need work. json_tree? Hmmm, no good ...

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