On 6 June 2013 16:13, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some that should be pointed out is that one reason JSON needs to accept
> duplicate field names is that some people currently use them to add
> comments to JSON datasets:
>
> {
> "//": "This is a comment about my data",
> "//": "that takes more than one line",
> "field1" : 1,
> "field2" : 2
> }
>
That is totally stupid. IMO the JSON spec should support comments like //
and /**/ and also support single quotes for string values. It's JavaScript
for christ sake. It makes no sense to invent and support this crappy
syntax.
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