> After dealing with broken JSON... Postel tried to warn us. > ...nice having the extra reminder that the left side of the colon is a key and the right a valu

> After dealing with broken JSON... Postel tried to warn us. > ...nice having the extra reminder that the left side of the colon is a key and the right a value. Totally. IMHO: whitespace, formatting, delimiters are for humans. The parsers can do without. With some exceptions, like your examples of quoting strings to remove ambiguity.