While I appreciate your work I would like to ask if you think the advantages of these additions are enough to justify:
1) The added complexity 2) Changing the semantics of something already completely defined and with a very large tools ecosystems around it. In other words, markups are cool but maybe this is not JSON? :) Funny that someone said it might be YAML (yet another markup language) :) Anyway, kudos on great OSS work! Nuno On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Aseem Kishore <aseem.kish...@gmail.com>wrote: > Great question. I actually didn't know until after I published this that > YAML is a superset of JSON. Other than that, I didn't really consider YAML > only because it doesn't seem to have very good uptake in JS-land. > > Looking at it a bit now, though, I think there might be some value in > incremental improvements to JSON, where the syntax is still valid > JavaScript, rather than a different and much larger syntax. > > Aseem > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Vitaly Puzrin <vit...@rcdesign.ru>wrote: > >> Why not to just use YAML :) ? >> >> понедельник, 28 мая 2012 г., 6:32:23 UTC+4 пользователь Aseem Kishore >> написал: >> >>> I love JSON, but writing it by hand has always been a pain. >>> >>> Needing to (double-)quote keys, not being able to document the data with >>> comments, and not having support for trailing commas or multi-line strings >>> -- all of which are available and work perfectly well on modern ES5 >>> engines, including Node. >>> >>> After stewing on this for over a year, I bit the bullet today and made >>> this idea a reality: a "JSON5" parser that supports these and other ES5 >>> features in JSON. >>> >>> https://github.com/aseemk/**json5 <https://github.com/aseemk/json5> >>> >>> It's built off of Douglas Crockford's own eval()-free JSON parser, and >>> it's available now on npm as "json5". >>> >>> I'd love to get your guys' thoughts and feedback on this. And it'd be a >>> dream if package.json files could be written in this looser syntax one day. >>> =) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Aseem >>> >>> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
