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27.1; json-serialize unable to serialize JSON values

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From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>, "p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com" <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "42994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <42994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#42994: [External] : bug#42994: 27.1; json-serialize unable to serialize JSON values
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:40:05 +0000

If the original intention for `json-serialize` was to offer a 
functionally equivalent native version of `json-encode`, then this is a 
bug. There was no discussion about this mismatch whatsover, so my guess 
is this was an omission and thus a bug.

On 13/02/2021 11:30 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> Thanks!  Does this need calling out in etc/NEWS, or is it considered
>> more of a bugfix?
> (Again, not really following this thread.)
>
> If Emacs support of JSON parsing or serializing
> changes from considering only objects and arrays
> to be "jsons" to considering also JSON scalars
> to be "jsons", then that's not a bug fix; it's
> a change in support of the JSON language.  IMO,
> that should be called out somewhere such as NEWS.

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