JSON text is not a subset of PrimaryExpression

[Mark Miller]

The benefit that I care about more:

"The following regularity holds between A and B except for this tiny edge
case."

is a much greater cognitive burden on everyone, forever, than

"The following regularity holds between A and B."



On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Mike Samuel <mikesamuel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
> <allen at wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
> > The “issue” raised is one word in a non-normative paragraph.  It can be
> > corrected with a one word change.  Replace
> >
> > "Valid JSON text is a subset of the ECMAScript PrimaryExpression syntax
> as
> > modified by Step 4 above.”
> >
> > with
> >
> > "Valid JSON text is a variant of the ECMAScript PrimaryExpression syntax
> as
> > modified by Step 4 above.”
>
> +1.  AFAICT, the only benefit "subset" gets us is that it's a bit
> easier to paste JSON into a .js file.
> I doubt a significant number of people are pasting JSON with the
> problematic codepoints but if there are that can be addressed by
> js-mode.el or your favorite analogue.
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-- 
  Cheers,
  --MarkM
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