Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be unique.

[Douglas Crockford <[e-mail]>]

On 6/7/2013 9:59 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Douglas Crockford wrote:
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>> On 6/6/2013 8:42 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>>> Given that duplicate names have historically been valid, that some people use them, and that the standard ECMAScript JSON parser accepts them I don't see why allowing a parser to reject duplicate names is helpful.
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>> Because some parsers do so, and have for years. JSON.parse is not the only JSON parser. Our purpose here is not to attempt to fix this thing, because fixing it will break it. There were unfortunately ambiguities in the RFC. If we can, we should remove the ambiguities, but we must do so without changing the meaning of what JSON is.
> I think it is more important to preserve the validity of existing archival datasets then it is to preserve the validity of existing parsers that throw on duplicate keys.
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We should not be invalidating data or programs. We should only be 
explaining better. No breakage is acceptable. No breakage.