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Re: [Json] Consensus call: establishing name equality

Vinny A <jsontest@yahoo.com> Fri, 21 June 2013 23:43 UTC

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From: Vinny A <jsontest@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:43:17 -0500
To: Jacob Davies <jacob@well.com>
Cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, JSON WG <json@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Json] Consensus call: establishing name equality
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On Jun 21, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Jacob Davies <jacob@well.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
> Hm, I think this is useful.  I’ve seen people go off the rails trying to be overly clever comparing strings, so this in effect is just telling them not to overthink. -T
> 
> Is this definition of equality needed elsewhere in the document though? Standing alone it seems a little odd - there's no discussion how to compare two numbers, two objects, or two lists for equality, so why are strings-used-for-names special?

View this as more of a constraint on names, not on strings in general. It's important to set expectations here, as implementations have to convert JSON into maps.


On Jun 21, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
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> Please respond to this message with a list of proposals you could accept, ordered from highest to lowest. Do not list proposals you cannot live with. If you cannot accept any of the proposals, please respond and say why.

3 = 1 > 2

I can't live with option 0, as I think there needs to be more clarification in regards to names, name comparison, and conversion to language-specific maps.


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