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Re: [Json] serializing sequences of JSON values

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Fri, 14 March 2014 23:32 UTC

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Tim Bray scripsit:

>  JSON is unambiguously and easily parsable.  To talk in abnf, I don’t think
> we should be satisfied with anything less than this:
> 
> JSON-sequence = JSON-text *(text-separator JSON-text)
> text-separator = 1*(  %x20 / %x09 / %x0A / %x0D )

Emphatic +1.

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