jqlang
Define format in jq code
The proposed change makes it easier to extend format with new formats (#1227). The reasoning is that it is often more straightforward to implement a serialization algorithm recursively in a high-level functional language than in C.
I've implemented serialization to Tcl dictionaries (#685) in pure jq code as an example. This version differs slightly from the one in #685 to work around forward slash (\) escaping issues in src/builtin.jq.
Perhaps the function Edit: Done.totcl should be renamed _totcl.
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Hi. This is a wonderful contribution. I may leave totcl that way instead of as _totcl; not sure. I'll try to get to merging this this coming weekend. Thanks!
I've realized there is a corner case that can cause @tcl to produce invalid Tcl data. I'll make a test for it and produce a patch shortly.
Done. Now @tcl quotes data the way Tcl itself does. I've added tests for some corner cases that the earlier implementation failed to process correctly. I didn't rename _totcl back to totcl to leave that up to you.
I forgot to say that I appreciate you complimenting this change. I am a fan of the purely functional language that jq has grown.
I'd love to see this in jq. I could see this formatter plugin being used to output YAML, hocon, dhall, and some others that are effectively supersets of JSON.
