Re: [Json] What is a JSON-text? [REVISITED]

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Thu, 03 October 2013 17:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] What is a JSON-text? [REVISITED]
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I am very strongly against changing the -bis to allow top-level values.
- It’s a bad practice
- support for it in popular libraries is very patchy.


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Matt Miller (mamille2)
<mamille2@cisco.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> There appears to be rough consensus to reference ECMA-262 edition 5.1.  As
> James pointed out[1], something will need to be said about what is a
> JSON-text; either 4627bis states a difference from ECMA-262 edition 5.1, or
> 4627bis states a difference from RFC 4627.
>
> There was previously much discussion on this topic[2].  Some have restated
> their support.  What do others think about changing JSON-text to allow any
> JSON value versus just objects or arrays?
>
>
> -  Paul Hoffman and Matt Miller
>
> [1] < http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/json/current/msg01721.html >
> [2] < http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/json/current/msg00553.html >
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