GNU bug report logs - #79192
json parsing error position reform

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Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 15:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 79192 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#79192: json parsing error position reform
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 17:43:26 +0200

7 aug. 2025 kl. 17.36 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> If we have the position, can we have the cake and eat it, too?  Would
> it be possible to call some function in the case of an error that
> would calculate the line and column from the position, and include
> that in the error data?  That way, the performance will suffer only
> when there is an error to report.

It would be completely useless busy-work in practice. Even if disabled by default, it's programming work done for something that makes nobody happy. Let's put our effort where it counts instead.
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