Subject: bug#79192: json parsing error position reform

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 16:08:12 +0200

7 aug. 2025 kl. 20.22 skrev Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:

> Every tool that reports errors or hits shows line numbers, and
> sometimes also column numbers.  So it looks like a reasonable thing to
> expect.

But the json parser isn't a tool, it's a low-level primitive that can be used to make tools.
Having it produce line and column numbers makes as much sense as doing that from `re-search-forward`.
Or, if you prefer, from one of our two (three?) XML parser APIs. It just not how APIs are designed.