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Re: [Json] Proposal: the minimal edit

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 24 June 2013 18:53 UTC

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Norbert Lindenberg scripsit:

> Which of these "non-4627-blessed things" is done only by ECMAScript? The
> one Rob mentioned, producing and consuming primitive JSON values at
> the root level, can also be found, e.g., in the JSON implementation
> in Python:

Yes, but that's just the *implementation* in Python.  The Python *standard*
(insofar as there is such a thing) has nothing to say about JSON, whereas
the ECMAScript standard does.  It's standard vs. standard that needs to be
called out, not standard vs. implementation.

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