Re: [Chicken-hackers] CHICKEN in production

[Alex Shinn]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Florian Zumbiehl <address@hidden> wrote:

> Note XML, which is the usual transport for JSON, doesn't allow NUL,
> or in fact any ASCII control characters, so I think you're going to
> have a difficult time supporting such JSON anyway.  But If you really

JSON transport over XML?

Poorly worded, sorry.  The point being that JSON is typically sent to/from

webpages, which are the XHTML dialect of XML.  So neither the static data

of the _javascript_ nor the dynamic data from user interaction (input elements)

allow NUL.

 

I think that's what I wrote two posts ago? Yes, of course, you can work
around such limitations, but you certainly are not suggesting that the
right way to implement a JSON parser is to by default return character
strings as u8vectors, are you?

No, I'm suggesting that allowing NULs was a mis-design, and is actively

discouraged since there are many parsers which don't support it and

presumably never will.  But if you really wanted to you could do it.

-- 

Alex