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26.3; json-pretty-print of JSON with dict containing 't' as a key causes error

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 45032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Henry Minsky <henry.minsky <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#45032: 26.3; json-pretty-print of JSON with dict containing
 't' as a key causes error
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:19:38 +0100

Am Sa., 12. Dez. 2020 um 22:25 Uhr schrieb Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>:
>
> On 12.12.2020 16:28, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> >> So this difference in keywords serialization was by design?
> >>
> >> ELISP> (json-serialize '(:a 1 :b 2))
> >> "{\"a\":1,\"b\":2}"
> >> ELISP> (json-serialize '((:a . 1) (:b . 2)))
> >> "{\":a\":1,\":b\":2}"
> > I can't answer that. When I wrote json.c, I had it only support
> > hashtables, and list support is a later addition.
>
> Perhaps we could agree that there _are_ some things that can be fixed in
> json.c's behavior, then?

It doesn't matter what we can agree on, now that json.c is released
into a stable release, we can't change its behavior any more (unless
you're proposing to add new keyword arguments to json-serialize, which
would still be possible).

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