Re: [Json] Scope: Wire format or runtime format?

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 17 June 2013 11:55 UTC

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Norbert Lindenberg scripsit:

> Maybe you have a better term for it: What I mean in the ECMAScript
> context is the format that the functions JSON.parse and JSON.stringify
> parse and produce [1]. 

This simply is the description of JSON at the level of characters.

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