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Re: json api WIP patch

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-02-04T17:50:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

> My suggestion would be ~> and ~>>. I know David Wheeler didn't like that on the ground that some fonts elevate ~ rather than aligning it in the middle as most monospaced fonts do, but I'm tempted just to say "then use a different font." Other possibilities that come to mind are +> and +>>, although I think they're less attractive. But I'll be guided by the consensus, assuming there is one ;-)

On the contrary, I quite like ~>. I've used it in pair.

  http://pgxn.org/extension/pair

But others have complained about the font issue when I've suggested it for things in the past.

My fonts don't suck. :-)

I can live with +> and +>>.

David