On Nov 16, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
The name "JSON.stringify" seems a little too "Web 2.0" cool to me.
Hardly. It's hacker dictionary material, old sk00l.
Is there any reason a more usual and serious sounding option like "serialize" was not used?
Ugh, Web 1.0 my-first-Java-serializable-implementation anti-nostalgia vapors.
Both are nine characters. I think there is a marketing issue here elevating JavaScript from a "toy language". Although that concept has been decreasing there is no need to encourage it.
The very good reason not to mess with stringify or parse is that json2.js has already shipped, and we are pre-empting its global property name "JSON". Object-detecting scripts that conditionally include or eval json2.js will fail if we don't workalike.
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