[OT] is JSON all that great? - was Re: API Help

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-06-15, Erik <python at lucidity.plus.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/17 15:10, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:00 AM, alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> Json is designed to be legal Javascript code & therefore directly
>>> executable so no parser is posible.
>>>
>> 
>> "no parser is possible"???
>
> I *think* alister meant "so it is possible to not use a parser 
> [library]" (i.e., parse the stream using JavaScript's parser via eval() 
> - though I agree with everyone else who has said this should never be done).

The old operator order/precedence issue strikes again...

  (no parser) is possible

vs.

  no (parser is possible)

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