Re: [Json] Erratum update: "JSON is a subset of JavaScript"

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 29 August 2023 18:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Erratum update: "JSON is a subset of JavaScript"
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On 2023-08-29, at 20:44, Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:
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> So, I think we can reject this one, as the proposed change will become increasingly incorrect.

Indeed.

RFC 8259 references “ECMAScript Programming Language Standard, Third Edition [ECMA-262]”, for which the errata report is valid.
But “JavaScript" is what it is now, so this errata report no longer serves a purpose.
(One could explain that there used to be a problem with that statement, and that the problem is now fixed.  But it is enough to explain this in the verifier notes.)

Sometimes letting an errata report sit for half a decade does have its advantages :-)

Grüße, Carsten