This isn't the only problem with JSON as a standard by a long shot[1]. Like Markdown and PHP its use has grown to the point where an extremely thoroughly review

This isn't the only problem with JSON as a standard by a long shot[1]. Like Markdown and PHP its use has grown to the point where an extremely thoroughly reviewed reference implementation and test suite would make everybody's lives easier. [1] http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php