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

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

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