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Re: [Json] Nudging the English-language vs. formalisms discussion forward

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Wed, 19 February 2014 22:32 UTC

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> What I think is going to be very hard is proving that a given Y is a subset
> of X. And if we do that we risk having specifications that are not actually
> JSON but only JSON-like.
>
> Unless that is we start off with a tool that generates Y in a fashion that
> makes it easy to check that it is a subset of X.

Oh, I absolutely think that tools to support this are a big help!

Barry

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