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

[Tony Hansen <[e-mail]>]

Of all the wordings that have been proposed so far, I like Eliot's best.

    Tony Hansen

On 6/5/2013 4:08 PM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 6/5/13 8:33 PM, Douglas Crockford wrote:
>> This was the biggest blunder in the RFC. SHOULD should have been MUST.
>>
>> It is, sadly, too late to repair this. Instead, we must specify what
>> happens when you do the thing you SHOULD NOT do. We need to provide
>> implementations some slack here because some implementations do the
>> right thing and reject. Some implementations do the lazy thing and
>> take that last use of the name.
> Demonstrating my age, an old trick we've done that goes back to RFC-1123
> is to say MUST NOT send, and then implementations MAY NOT process, and
> if they do MUST process thusly...
>
> That gives you the possibility of potentially getting rid of something
> at a later date.  I don't know if you want to use it here.  It only
> sometimes works.
>
> Eliot