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

[Ben Finney]

alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> writes:

> Json is designed to be legal Javascript code & therefore directly
> executable so no parser is posible.

JSON is designed to be *a strictly limited subset* of legal JavaScript
that only defines data structures. The explicit goal is that it is
statically parseable as non-executable data.

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Ben Finney