toJSON on par with toString

[juan_gandhi]

I've been thinking lately... say, you are writing a pojo, and it is a good practice to have a good toString(), right? How about toJSON/fromJSON? seems like it would be a good idea to have it everywhere as well, what do you think?

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[xeno-by.livejournal.com]

By the way, this stuff with extension methods is a part of a global problem with C# 3.0 innovations. When used within LINQ scenarios, they play well and seem to be orthogonal additions to the language. But take a step aside - and you face all the ugliness.

[wizzard]

hehe. c# 2.0 was basically a direct mapping to CLR capabilities, but c# 3.0 went beyond that, that's why the discrepancies