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		mercurial on Oct 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf] Why not? After all, since JSON is not a proper Javascript subset, you still need to parse it somehow. And as JSON is a proper subset of YAML, you should get by with a YAML parser.

Ygg2 on Oct 14, 2013 [–]

I think JSON being a subset of yaml is one of THE biggest mistakes YAML made, second only to making YAML a serialization format.

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