On 1 Mar 2019, at 10:35, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Forget about the way you are trying to implement it, to what would

{ #key->#value. 1. true }

be rendered in JSON ?

{ "key":"value", 1, true }

or

[ "key":"value", 1, true ]

Both are illegal JSON.

You didn��t read what I said - with those 2 tiny changes - both of those given an exception just like STONJSON - the only difference is that I don��t have to put asDictionary everywhere.

Anyway - I think I��ve learned a lot from this discussion - and as Pharo is malleable I can do my little nasty subclass until I get burned and then I will probably adopt a proper Config object like Henrik mentioned ;)

Just as a small additional question - when you do :

ex := {
#track->#pharo.
#language->#smalltalk.
#exercises->{
   #slug->'hello'.
   #id->55.
   #topics->#('a' 'b' 'c') } asDictionary } asDictionary.

Am I right in thinking that with asDictionary the order won��t be deterministic (which is valid for JSON dictionaries, but annoying for diffing config files). This is why I was doing asOrderedDictionary as I though I had seen it change on me a few times when I was generating output.

Tim