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Re: [Json] Introduction

"Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com> Thu, 06 June 2013 19:57 UTC

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From: "Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com>
To: Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com>, "json@ietf.org" <json@ietf.org>
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On 6/6/13 1:15 PM, "Douglas Crockford" <douglas@crockford.com> wrote:

>    A string is a sequence of zero or more characters.

How about:

"A string is a sequence of code points for almost any Unicode character."

("almost" here refers to the ones that need to be escaped)

>    An object is an unordered collection of zero or more name/value
>    pairs, where a name is a string and a value is a string, number,
>    boolean, null, object, or array.
>
>    An array is an ordered sequence of zero or more values.
>
>    The terms "object" and "array" come from the conventions of
>    JavaScript.

I think this graf can be deleted.

>    JSON's design goals were for it to be minimal, portable, textual, and
>    a subset of JavaScript.  JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation.

Should we add something like:

"However, JSON is now used in many different programming languages.  This
document describes a language-neutral approach."

-- 
Joe Hildebrand

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