Re: RE: note 92873 rejected and deleted from function.json-encode by notes editor danbrown

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 19:58, Michael Geary<mg@mg.to> wrote: > I did see the note about using bugs.php.net to report documentation bugs, > but I was somehow thinking that meant just bugs in the documentation itself, > not in the user comments. Maybe it would help to make it explicit that this > should be used to report errors in user comments as well as in the > documentation proper. That's a really good idea, Mike. If you would like, you could file that as a feature request for the website as well. > In any case, you may have saved me some embarrassment by deleting my > comment. I just took a closer look at the JSON spec, and it doesn't actually > say anywhere whether a complete, valid JSON string can contain just a > primitive value or if it has to be an array or object. > > It's a pretty major omission in the spec, and in fact JSON implementations > have done it both ways. For example, json_encode() and json_decode() allow > primitive values, but www.jsonlint.com allows only arrays and objects. > > I sent Doug Crockford a note asking for his opinion - I'll know better how > to proceed after I hear back from him. :-) Sounds good. -- </Daniel P. Brown> daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ Check out our great hosting and dedicated server deals at http://twitter.com/pilotpig