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bug#24252: 25.1; json.el doesn't distinguish null and empty object
From: |
Nicolas Petton |
Subject: |
bug#24252: 25.1; json.el doesn't distinguish null and empty object |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:05:47 +0200 |
Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:
> I understood Nico's message as a call for help from other Emacs
> maintainers, not from me :-).
It was just a question :-)
> The new code is certainly *not* backward-compatible if you look at the
> details. For example, `json-encode-list` was sometimes printing `null`
> and it won't do that anymore. I see that as a bug fix because `null` is
> not a list but it clearly makes the code not backward compatible.
>
> On the other hand, all existing unit tests still pass and the patch
> includes a bunch of new ones. I have been using this patch since I wrote
> it with no problem at all.
Seems fair to me. I think we should install the patch. Eli, do you
agree? If so, I'll install it in master.
Cheers,
Nico
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