On 28 Nov 2013, at 05:51, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl(_at_)w3(_dot_)org> wrote:
JSON is interesting in being a subset of ECMAscript.
That was a clever device used by Douglas Crockford to minimize the bike
shedding that was inevitable when he designed the data format. That device is
no longer necessary, indeed, it has become a liability as ECMAscript moved
forward.
That is a big dependency -- will it be preserved?
There is no dependency any more, and the subset relationship has already been
destroyed by the introduction of Line/Paragraph separators (U+2028/U+2029) in
recent versions of ECMAscript (these are valid in JSON strings but not in
ECMAscript 5 strings).
It is best to acknowledge the role of JavaScript as the inspiration for the
JSON data interchange format (and one of its biggest customers), but otherwise
consider the two specifications independent of each other.
Grüße, Carsten