CQL for Monkeys

CQL is employed both by Sharks (in JSON) and by Monkeys (in Ruby).

Monkeys should have no problem translating the examples from JSON to Ruby, because CQL's structure is the same in both. For example, in Ruby, we might express a simple CQL statement as follows:

{ :name => 'Help' }

while the same in JSON would be

{ "name" : "Help" }

The above example is about as different as the two representations get. Both surround hashes with curly brackets and arrays with square brackets, but Ruby CQL uses symbols which start with colons, like :name, while JSON CQL puts both keys and values in double quotes. And those keys and values are separated by => in Ruby and : in JSON. In all other cases, whether you're writing in Ruby or JSON your CQL will use the same basic representation for the same basic concepts.