JSON parser grammar

[Hallvord R. M. Steen]

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:42:46 +0200, Allen Wirfs-Brock <Allen.Wirfs-Brock at microsoft.com> wrote:

> a) Allow strings, numbers, Booleans, and null in addition to objects and  
> arrays as top level JSON text.
> The ES5 spec. already has this although it isn't in the RFC.  I haven't  
> heard any suggestions that we remove it.


This may be a stupid question, but..

How can you allow "strings" as top level JSON text and keep the 15.12.2 step 2 requirement that JSON.parse() must throw if the input isn't valid JSON source text? In other words, how is an implementation supposed to know if I'm passing in a string of random content that should be "parsed" into a string or a malformed piece of JSON that should cause an exception?

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