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Re: [Json] Last call: JSON charter

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sun, 31 March 2013 17:38 UTC

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On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
>> Do you want to just use ECMAScript for the JSON *grammar*, and the IETF gets to specify the *parsing rules*? Or something else?
> 
> I'd like if we deferred as much as possible to the ECMAScript variant.
> That should probably include parsing, but it does not seem necessary
> to make that the entire API that is provided to ECMAScript. Just
> parsing JSONText seems sufficient.

That works for me, as does us doing what we did in RFC 4627.

>> FWIW, the ECMAScript grammar and the RFC 4627 grammar are identical (as far as anyone has said), other than it's harder to figure out the ECMAScript grammar because you have to jump around the ECMAScript document.
> 
> That's false.
> 
> JSONText is a JSONValue in ECMAScript. In RFC 4627 it's either a
> JSONObject or a JSONArray.

Hrm. I consider "a JSON text is X" to be a parser rule, not a grammar rule, but I can see that it could be either.

--Paul Hoffman

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