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Re: [Json] Proposal: the minimal edit

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Sat, 22 June 2013 21:22 UTC

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R S scripsit:

> > + ECMAScript parsers only accept,
> 
> This bit is not quite right. I think they'll accept anything that conforms
> to the JSON grammar, and then produce a number that is not what the sender
> intended if it's out of range.

Fair enough.  "Only interpret correctly", perhaps, then.

> <https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-ids-json-and-snowflake>

This says that some parsers may throw exceptions if the number is too
big, though it doesn't mention any such.

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