On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> > wrote: >> No it's not JavaScript! It a file format for storing and interchanging >> data. Preserving existing data is a key requirement. > > Nevertheless, enhancing it with sensible comment syntax would be > great. But as you said, there's a different list for that.
>From an ECMAScript perspective, the way to get a JSON comment syntax in place >would be to first added it to JSON.parse in the ES spec. and get it deployed >in browsers. Starting by adding it to the JSON RFC is just going to suggest >to people that they can use use comments in their JSON datasets when in fact >the most widely deployed browser-based parsers won't accept them. Of course, >getting support in parsers hosted by other languages is a whole different >matter. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
