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Could someone tell me why the example given is malformed? I rarely write JSON anymore (except with json_encode in php and simplejson in python).

• almost 17y ago
  The malformed example given is: {foo: "bar"} which is missing the quotes around foo so it should be: {"foo": "bar"} Since both of those would have had the same meaning the JSON spec sensibly restricts things so that only one is valid. See http://json.org/ http://json.org/ for the (very short and readable) spec.
  • cellis 17y ago
    Thanks.
  • bobbyi 17y ago
    The reason for outlawing the first syntax is that it isn't a legal javascript literal in the case where the key is a javascript reserved word (if we change 'foo' to 'for' in this example).
• ionfish 17y ago
  The object property is assigned with a name, not a (double-quoted) string. Well-formed JSON would look like this: {"foo": "bar"}