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Re: [Json] Proposal for strings/Unicode text

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 17 June 2013 17:57 UTC

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On Jun 17, 2013, at 19:27, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> What value is that comment?

Well, comments are always evil, because they mislead from the code.

> Doesn't it invite misinterpretation of the ABNF, which is exact?

The same argument could be made for

      begin-array     = ws %x5B ws  ; [ left square bracket

Actually, I'd argue for keeping in that style.

(And I know about U+27E6, U+301A, even U+FF3B.)

If we do want to explain, do it like this?

unescaped = ; any Unicode scalar value, except those that must be escaped:
          ; must escape C0 control characters %x0-1F
            %x20-21
          ; must escape %x22 " quotation mark
          / %x23-5B
          ; must escape %x5E \ reverse solidus
          / %x5D-D7FF
          ; not Unicode scalar values: %xD800-DFFF
          / %xE000-10FFFF

Grüße, Carsten

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