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Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?

"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> Wed, 10 July 2013 11:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?
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On 07/10/2013 03:24 AM, Stephan Beal wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Stephan Beal <sgbeal@googlemail.com 
> <mailto:sgbeal@googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     You're right, and i'll see if i can find some properly collected
>     statistics. My "evidence" is purely anecdotal - 90+% of the applications
>     i work with which use JSON are www-based or www-bound.
>
>
> While this doesn't count as evidence, it might help support the anecdote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
>
> "It [JSON] is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web 
> application, serving as an alternative to XML."
>
> -- 
> ----- stephan beal
> http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
> http://gplus.to/sgbeal
>
>

If it is in Wikipedia, it must be true.  :-)

So that means that I can also count on the infobox information that JSON is 
"Extended from JavaScript", right?

peter

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