Subj : Changing Object.prototype.toSource to use double-quotes everywhere
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Tue May 10 2005 07:51 pm

Object.prototype.toSource uses single-quoting around property ids that 
are not lexical identifiers, but Douglas Crockford proposed today at the 
AJAX Summit that it use double-quotes, as that's more JSON-like (JSON 
specifies that all property ids are quoted, but I don't think we should 
do that at this stage, without more testing and web-spidering).

Just switching things so

var o = {foo: "bar", '$#@%': 42};
o.toSource()

results in a string containing {foo:"bar", "$#@%":42} instead of 
{foo:"bar", '$#@%':42} is a small change that should be easy to adapt 
to, if any existing consumers of toSource output have come to depend on 
single quotes being used, if any quoting is used, around property ids.

Comments?

/be

.