Re: [Chicken-users] Why does the JSON egg map JSON structs to Scheme vectors instead of alists?

[Vok Vojwo]

2011/11/27 Christian Kellermann <address@hidden>:
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> My guess is that it makes it possible to write back to json, since
> alists are already used for representing a different datatype.

But json-write does not accept alists as values. This

(json-write (vector (cons "x" (list (cons "a" 1) (cons "b" 2)))))

throws the following error:

Error: Invalid JSON object in json-write: ("a" . 1)