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Comment by SJC_Hacker

3 days ago

JSON doesn’t really have data types beyond very simple ones

> JSON doesn’t really have data types beyond very simple ones

What do you think primitive types are supposed to be?

  • I guess my point was something like an ISO 8601 date would be beyond the scope of a built in data type given JSONs philosophy of a minimal spec. It’s up to the end user to define types like that.