As a nitpick, your JSON example uses single quoted keys, and it is mandatory for keys (and all strings) in JSON to use double quotes. Some parsers don't care,

As a nitpick, your JSON example uses single quoted keys, and it is mandatory for keys (and all strings) in JSON to use double quotes. Some parsers don't care, for instance if they are part of a full JS engine that can interpret beyond JSON's subset of JS object literal notation, but others will choke. I guess this actually helps prove your point since text formats do tend to invoke intuitions that may cause one to stray outside of the strict specification.