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It was thus said that the Great Jonathan Goble once stated:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:43 AM Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 
> > It was thus said that the Great Sean Conner once stated:
> > >
> > >   I've just released version 1.0.6 of org.conman.parsers.jsons, which
> > > fixes a bug found by Dirk Laurie related to feeding data into the parser.
> > > This now works:
> > >
> > >         json = require "org.conman.parsers.jsons"
> > >         file = io.open("large-json-file.json","r")
> > >         data = json:match(function() return file:read(1024) end)
> >
> > No it doesn't.
> >
> 
> I notice that you have no tests in your repository. Instead of continually
> releasing new versions that allegedly fix the issue but actually don't, may
> I suggest stopping work on that, writing a test suite, and then work on the
> bug without releasing anything until the test suite passes?
> 
> Generally speaking, when I'm looking for a module to use, a lack of tests
> is one of the biggest turn-offs for me, because it suggests to me that the
> author doesn't care enough to make sure it actually does what it's supposed
> to do.

  Fair enough.  

  -spc