On Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 4:00 PM Anders Rundgren <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2018-03-18 20:23, Mike Samuel wrote:
> >     It is possible that I don't understand what you are asking for here
> since I have no experience with toJSON.
> >
> >     Based on this documentation
> >
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/stringify
> <
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/stringify
> >
> >     JSON.canonicalize() would though work out of the box (when
> integrated in the JSON object NB...) since it would inherit all the
> functionality (and 99% of the code) of JSON.stringify()
> >
> >
> > JSON.stringify(new Date()) has specific semantics because
> Date.prototype.toJSON has specific semantics.
> > As currently written, JSON.canonicalize(new Date()) ===
> JSON.canonicalize({})
>
> It seems that you (deliberately?) misunderstand what I'm writing above.
>
> JSON.canonicalize(new Date()) would do exactly the same thing as
> JSON.stringify(new Date()) since it apparently only returns a string.
>

Where in the spec do you handle this case?

Again, the sample code I provided is a bare bones solution with the only
> purpose showing the proposed canonicalization algorithm in code as a
> complement to the written specification.
>

Understood.  AFAICT neither the text nor the instructional code treat Dates
differently from an empty object.


> Anders
>
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