Re: [Json] Radically changing 4627bis

"Markus Lanthaler" <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> Thu, 10 October 2013 10:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Radically changing 4627bis
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On Thursday, October 10, 2013 1:32 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
> The descriptions in ECMA 404 and 4627 and json.org and ECMA 262 and the -bis
> draft are all isomorphic as respects JSON syntax.  Except for the ECMA
> family doesn't impose the top-level array-or-object restriction.  Also 404
> says nothing at all about dupes in objects and loses a few other bits &
> pieces such as default encodings.
> 
> Thus there would be no benefit to a reader of -bis in making them go
> anywhere else to learn the syntax because it’s the same everywhere.  So I
> think the -bis draft helpfully covers the same syntax ground, while also
> offering interoperability-problems advice.  I don’t see any benefit in
> decomposing the -bis at this point.

+1


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