On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Hallvord R. M. Steen<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:57:11 +0200, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> While the JSON spec itself allows parsers to accept strings outside the >> standard JSON grammar, the ES5 spec for the JSON object was carefully >> constructed to give us a validating parser: one that rejects non-JSON >> text. > > Well, I may have suggested a change in the wrong place but the intention was > to make this legal in JSON text, not to break validation generally.
As I've often said to Crock, one of the most wonderful things about the JSON spec is that there is no possibility for versioning the spec, so JSON is done. It is what it is. We're better off living with its problems than we would be living with versioning problems. The world would be a much better place if other standards groups had the wisdom to disband when they were done. (And no, I'm not slyly suggesting that EcmaScript is done. It's not.) > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:09:54 +0200, Oliver Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The WebKit JSON parser does not allow this (You can test in Safari 4.0.3 >> or a nightly build) > > Indeed. As you haven't seen any compat problems so far I'll withdraw the > suggestion and make sure we (Opera) follows the spec as-is, hopefully the > Gecko and IE teams will fix it too :) Good, thanks. We should be sure to include such tests in the to-be-official EcmaScript test suites we're accumulating. Might help encourage conformance ;). -- Cheers, --MarkM _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
