Value types

[jlkiri]

I wonder what is the possible real-world use of mixed value types like:

foo 1 2 3 "hello"

I'm not sure yet but wouldn't it be a pain to deserialize this in languages where an array of values can only have one type?

[zkat]

I think this would work out fine when working with, say, serde, because it would generate errors if it doesn't get the general structure that it expects to be deserializing? Much like serde_json supports weird stuff like "string OR object" in values?

[zkat]

it does make me think that any serde bindings to this would need to be able to handle both the "array of things" case and the "first arg maps to this, second arg maps to that" for heterogenous node values.

Something like:

struct Foo {
    #[serde(rename = "$0")]
    pub name: String,
    #[serde(rename = "$1")]
    pub age: usize,
}

which would then apply to foo "Alex" 33