ECMAScript was standardized over ten years ago. The specification has been publicly available and (as far as I know) every implementation has treated line termi

ECMAScript was standardized over ten years ago. The specification has been publicly available and (as far as I know) every implementation has treated line terminators equally. We can't just change 5+ implementations of JS to make it compatible with a some tiny data format that works fine 99% of the time anyway. I'm not saying that JSON isn't a part of JS; of course it is! I'm just saying that it isn't a strict subset of JS and that you can't depend on eval() doing the right thing.