Re: [Json] Meanwhile, out there...

Actually, I really wish the IETF would grab the bull by the horns and define 
a notation that is geared towards it's purposes rather than continually 
making do with everyone else's second-hand cast offs!

I think something JSON like would be good, but with a few modifications. 
For example SHON - Simple Humanized Object Notation:

// Implicit initial object - no {
// Comments are allowed
a_name_without_space: 12
// Unquoted whitespace without a comma separates records
"a name with spaces": 14
an_array: 15, 16, 17    // Commas implicitly create an array
an_array: 18    // Another member for an_array
a_string: "A string"
another_string: 'Another string'
an_object: { /* as JSON */ }

</rant>

Pete Cordell
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>
To: "Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Cc: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>; "JSON WG" <json@ietf.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Json] Meanwhile, out there...

It says “this implementation doesn’t handle Unicode characters”.
 Unfortunately, that’s more or less all the characters I use.

Actually, quite sensible on the surface, aside from allowing +/-Infinity.

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> On Mar 2, 2014, at 8:38 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > <http://json5.org/>
> >
> >> JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON that brings ES5 enhancements to
> its syntax. It remains a strict subset of JavaScript, adds no new data
> types, and is astrict superset of existing JSON.
>
> This appears to only be meant to work in a Javascript program, yes?
> Otherwise, what the heck does "Object keys can be unquoted if they're 
> valid
> identifiers" mean?
>
> --Paul Hoffman
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