On 6 June 2013 16:13, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
> Some that should be pointed out is that one reason JSON needs to accept > duplicate field names is that some people currently use them to add > comments to JSON datasets: > > { > "//": "This is a comment about my data", > "//": "that takes more than one line", > "field1" : 1, > "field2" : 2 > } > That is totally stupid. IMO the JSON spec should support comments like // and /**/ and also support single quotes for string values. It's JavaScript for christ sake. It makes no sense to invent and support this crappy syntax.
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