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Re: [Json] Using a non-whitespace separator (Re: Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-json-text-sequence)

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Sun, 25 May 2014 23:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Using a non-whitespace separator (Re: Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-json-text-sequence)
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Nico Williams scripsit:

> I could teach jq how to parse a non-whitespace control character
> separator; that's easy enough.  The question is: how to handle
> backwards compatibility?  The obvious answer is: add an option.  But
> which way should it default?

Toward the standard, because the future of jq is longer than its past.

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