Monte Goulding's day off? ; -) the outcome.

[Monte Goulding]

> On 1 Jul 2016, at 5:58 PM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:
> 
>  1) Any JSON parser usable from LiveCode Script (right now) should just return all values as strings - it should check they are well-formed as per the JSON spec, but not actually attempt to convert or process them as the engine is more than capable of doing that for you. (Except for quoted values in JSON - they need to be 'unescaped').

From the perspective of mergJSON it would be simpler to convert it to lcidl based and therefore set variables to specific data types than to do what you are suggesting here as there’s simply no access to the strings from Jannson.

Cheers

Monte