GAP-JSON mapping This package defines a mapping between the JSON markup language and GAP. The built-in datatypes of GAP provide an easy mapping to and from JSON. This package uses the following mapping between GAP and JSON.

JSON lists are mapped to GAP lists JSON dictionaries are mapped to GAP records JSON strings are mapped to GAP strings Integers are mapped to GAP integers, non-integer numbers are mapped to Floats true, false and null are mapped to true, false and fail respectively

Note that this library is *NOT* intended to provide a general purpose library for transmitting any GAP object. If you wish to do this, look at the openmath package, or IO_Pickle in the IO package.
Methods Converts the value to JSON, and outputs it to stream. This function disables GAP's usual line splitting while JSON is being outputted. string Converts a GAP value to a JSON string. value Converts a JSON string into a GAP value. value Reads a single JSON object from a stream and converts it to a GAP value.