Re: [Json] Proposal: the minimal edit

[John Cowan <[e-mail]>]

Paul Hoffman scripsit:

> Hrm. Either you are focused only on the grammar section and not the
> whole document, or you missed the Introduction to RFC 4627, which
> say unequivocally:
> 
>    A string is a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters [UNICODE].

It's actually quite equivocal: it neither states that any Unicode character
may appear in a string, nor that everything that appears in a string is
a Unicode character.  But let that go for a moment.

> That statement disagrees with ABNF in the grammar, so the RFC is
> ambiguous. Some people in the WG believe that this sentence is right
> and the ABNF is wrong; others believe the other.

Since your proposal leaves the ambiguity intact, we don't know whether
the meaning of the RFC as revised by your proposal is or is not the same
as what ECMA-JSON prescribes.

> Does that help make the sentence about the differences more believable?

I don't disbelieve it; I don't think it belongs in a list of differences
until we have decided whether or not there is any difference.

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