Re: [Json] Regarding JSON text sequence ambiguities (Re: serializing sequences of JSON values)

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 10 March 2014 23:59 UTC

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Nico Williams scripsit:

> jq handles the ambiguity by requiring top-level values to be
> "terminated" by any of: unambiguous top-level values, whitespace, or
> EOF.  Thus the sequence of null, true, false, 1, and 2, requires
> whitespace between every value.  

Why is that?  The input "nulltruefalse1 2" would be unambiguous.

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