Re: ypaste: json compatiblity?

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:17 -0700, Burt Harris wrote:
> Have the productions used by ypaste at dev.yaml.org been updated for json
> compatabillity?

Yes, they have.

> Here's the tricky one I tried:
> 
>        {1:"Two"}
> 
> Note that there is no space following the colon. I believe json would parse
> this with a key of (int)1, and a value of "Two".

Nope. JSON only allows for (double quoted) string keys. *JavaScript*
would parse it, but then again JavaScript would parse a lot of non-JSON
stuff.

This should definitely go into the spec as an example!

>    YPaste parsed it as a key
> of '1:"Two"', and an empty value.

As it should. Think or the value http://www.yaml.org - which YAML allows
to be unquoted. We only allow skipping the ' ' following the ':' if the
key is quoted. Another way to think about it is that YAML tries its
utmost to interpret things as plain scalars and only chops them into
key/value pairs if there is no other way to read input.

Keep up the good work,

	Oren Ben-Kiki


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