On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Douglas Crockford <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 11:59 AM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > >> That said I think allowing '1.' (etc) makes sense as it's fairly standard >> across multiple programming languages, and I am unaware of any specific >> reason for disallowing it. >> >> In the long term I don't see changing the grammar to allow a trailing >> period as being harmful as it's a relaxation. In the short term vendors >> that follow the spec may fail to parse content :-( >> >> > I think that would be a mistake. We have seen lots of tragic cases on the > web where if we allow deviation from good practice, then those deviations > will surely occur. In the long run, that could seriously and unnecessarily > impair JSON interoperability with non-JavaScript endpoints. That might be > worth considering if there were some compensating benefit, but in this case > there isn't one. Deviating from the JSON grammar would be a bad tradeoff. +1. Prior to ES5, there did not seem to be any way within JS to create a library that was simultaneously fast, safe, and validating. < http://code.google.com/p/json-sans-eval/> is a perfectly fine fast and safe library. It's only downside is that it wasn't validating. Let's not retreat back to a non-validating JSON parser. > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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