Subj : Re: Changing Object.prototype.toSource to use double-quotes everywhere
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : zwetan
Date : Mon May 16 2005 11:57 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.
>

well, I code some code who can do as JSON but without the quote,
that means you can use toSource() to serialize and a small parser to
deserialize,

if this can be insteresting I can post some code.

zwetan

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