Re:JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn't
by SeoxyS on Sunday May 15, 2011 @03:23PM
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It sounds to me more like the javascript specification has a bug or design flaw, rather than saying as a blanket statement that JSON isn't really part of JS. Ideally, javascript and JS implementations should fix that flaw, rather than parsers having to work around it.
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ECMAScript was standardized over ten years ago. The specification has been publicly available and (as far as I know) every implementation has treated line terminators equally. We can't just change 5+ implementations of JS to make it compatible with a some tiny data format that works fine 99% of the time anyway.
I'm not saying that JSON isn't a part of JS; of course it is! I'm just saying that it isn't a strict subset of JS and that you can't depend on eval() doing the right thing.