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Re: [Json] Regarding JSON text sequence ambiguities (Re: serializing sequences of JSON values)

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Tue, 11 March 2014 17:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Regarding JSON text sequence ambiguities (Re: serializing sequences of JSON values)
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

> Heh, I wonder if there'd be any chance of getting consensus.  I can't
> imagine ever using anything but Object Object Object with optional
> whitespace separator; unless we all agree on that going in I'd pessimistic
> about anyone convincing anyone else...
>

But JSON has comma separators, so {..}, {..}, {..} makes far more sense.

The array production in the grammar already specifies this syntax so JSON
parsers already recognize it. Your proposal is something new.



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