> dumb suggestion .. defeats the entire point of having JSON in the first place No. Json's mission is to be a wire protocol. You're suggesting using it for oth

> dumb suggestion .. defeats the entire point of having JSON in the first place No. Json's mission is to be a wire protocol. You're suggesting using it for other purposes, and in a way that compromises its role here as a wire protocol. It's not intended to be a multi-purpose serialisation format.