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0 pointstaeric2y ago0 comments

Right, and amusingly, more than a few json parsers are very lenient in this. That or folks abandon ship fairly quickly and go for another spec that is far more friendly.

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preseinger2y ago

well json definitely does not accept `{'test':'value'}` as valid input

any parser that behaves otherwise is pretty clearly buggy

json has many problems but parsing ambiguity is not really one of them

taericOP2y ago

Me thinks you have never looked at the field. I'd as soon declare csv is an error free format. Only true if you ignore the proliferation of applications that get it wrong. In subtle ways, often. Still wrong.

preseinger2y ago

csv is wildly ambiguous, to the frustration of ~every data science engineer in industry

json is not

show me an application that parses `{'a':'b'}` as valid JSON, i'm actually interested, probably there are some which exist, but there is no ambiguity about those applications being wrong

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preseinger2y ago

well json definitely does not accept `{'test':'value'}` as valid input

any parser that behaves otherwise is pretty clearly buggy

json has many problems but parsing ambiguity is not really one of them

taericOP2y ago

preseinger2y ago

csv is wildly ambiguous, to the frustration of ~every data science engineer in industry

json is not

show me an application that parses `{'a':'b'}` as valid JSON, i'm actually interested, probably there are some which exist, but there is no ambiguity about those applications being wrong

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse