Re: Duplicate JSON Object Keys

Hannu Krosing escribió:
> On 03/08/2013 09:39 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:48 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> wrote:
> >>In the spirit of being liberal about what we accept but strict about what we store, it seems to me that JSON object key uniqueness should be enforced either by throwing an error on duplicate keys, or by flattening so that the latest key wins (as happens in JavaScript). I realize that tracking keys will slow parsing down, and potentially make it more memory-intensive, but such is the price for correctness.
> >I'm with Andrew. That's a rathole I emphatically don't want to go
> >down. I wrote this code originally, and I had the thought clearly in
> >mind that I wanted to accept JSON that was syntactically well-formed,
> >not JSON that met certain semantic constraints.
>
> If it does not meet these "semantic" constraints, then it is not
> really JSON - it is merely JSON-like.
>
> this sounds very much like MySQLs decision to support timestamp
> "0000-00-00 00:00" - syntactically correct, but semantically wrong.

Is it wrong? The standard cited says SHOULD, not MUST.

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