JSON & plain scalers

Burt Harris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.yaml.general
Message-ID <4367B3F0BD5AA84DBE0A9DA5AAF7B7B95635280F73@NA-EXMSG-C103.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
Section 10.2.2 says:

>  Scalars with the "?" non-specific tag (that is, plain scalars) are matched with a set
>  of regular expressions. In principle, JSON files should not contain any such scalars.
>  Hence the YAML processor should consider them to be an error.

That seems incorrectly worded. Perhaps the intent is to describe a "JSON only" mode for a YAML processor, but even then, plain scalars are allowed, though only ones matching the regular expressions.   Useful as such a processor feature might be, does such a mode belong in the YAML spec?



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