Yeah, yeah, thanks to all.
I should have read the RFC thing before even thinking to write about it. (json.org is well-known, thanks) Idea not good. Unless, of course, if someone sees otherwise. Still, I think it was worth bringing your attention to it. Best regards, Andrew Revinsky On Sep 26, 5:34 am, Tom Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Andrew Red wrote: > > > > > To explain the subject line, I believe, the concept of JSON strings > > should be described by the following formula: > > > eval(obj.toJSON()) -> obj, > > > i.e. toJSON methods should return such a string from an object that if > > evaluated, the result to be identical to that original object. > > JSON is not the same thing as Javascript serialization. > > JSON is designed to be a language-independent object serialization > for data-interchange that just happens to eval() in Javascript. If > you understand the JSON spec [1], you'll understand why what you're > asking for can't (won't) be done. > > In order to maintain its cross-language data-interchange capability, > JSON supports only types that are common across nearly all > programming languages: bools, strings, numbers, null, arrays, and > objects/hashes/dictionaries/whatever-you-wanna-call-em. NaN is > uncommon, as is a basic Date type. The Element type could be > partially serialized as an object (i.e. key/value pairs)--but it was, > I suspect, a conscious choice to not convert elements to JSON > strings. (Functions too aren't serialized by Protoype's JSON > implementation.) > > If you want to build your own custom serialization for those types as > a separate library, no one here will complain. Personally, I'm > against implementing these type into the core. > > TAG > > 1.http://json.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
