The benefit that I care about more: "The following regularity holds between A and B except for this tiny edge case."
is a much greater cognitive burden on everyone, forever, than "The following regularity holds between A and B." On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Mike Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The “issue” raised is one word in a non-normative paragraph. It can be > > corrected with a one word change. Replace > > > > "Valid JSON text is a subset of the ECMAScript PrimaryExpression syntax > as > > modified by Step 4 above.” > > > > with > > > > "Valid JSON text is a variant of the ECMAScript PrimaryExpression syntax > as > > modified by Step 4 above.” > > +1. AFAICT, the only benefit "subset" gets us is that it's a bit > easier to paste JSON into a .js file. > I doubt a significant number of people are pasting JSON with the > problematic codepoints but if there are that can be addressed by > js-mode.el or your favorite analogue. > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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