I don't think it's fair to take JSON out of context from the rest of the query API. Or maybe it's being overly generous, I'm not sure. Either way, this is the same way object literals are constructed in JavaScript. So is the beef w/JavaScript?
For me the Mongo shell is just enough so-called "richness" and "expressiveness" (Try it yourself: http://try.mongodb.org/). There's a certain magic to passing objects to functions (and being able to, say, read the body of a function by typing that object into the CLI).
For me the Mongo shell is just enough so-called "richness" and "expressiveness" (Try it yourself: http://try.mongodb.org/). There's a certain magic to passing objects to functions (and being able to, say, read the body of a function by typing that object into the CLI).