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zeroimpl
453 days ago
Example? I know there's some ambiguity over whether literals like
false
are valid JSON, but I can't think of anything else.
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tubthumper8
453 days ago
That _shouldn't_ be ambiguous, `false` is a valid JSON document according to specification, but not all parsers are compliant.
There's some interesting examples of ambiguities here:
https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html
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recursive
452 days ago
Trailing commas, comments, duplicate key names, for a few examples.
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int_19h
452 days ago
Trailing commas and comments are plainly not standard JSON under any definition. There are standards that include them which
extend
JSON, sure, but I'm not aware of any JSON library that emits this kind of stuff by default.
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recursive
452 days ago
I'm not aware of any CSV library that doesn't follow RFC4180 by default, and yet... this whole thread.
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There's some interesting examples of ambiguities here: https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html