Re: json + bash

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:25:52AM +0600, Sergei Tokaev wrote:
> Hi out there. Will it be good to add json support in bash internally. As
> in variable declarations: decalre "-j" "{"variable":"value"}"

This doesn't seem like an appropriate addition to bash, in my opinion.
Where do you draw the line?  Should bash also parse XML?  Windows .INI
files?  Comma-separated-value text files with quotes around elements
that contain commas?  Apache-style log files with quotes around fields
that contain spaces?

In my opinion, all of those things are inappropriate to add to bash.