multiple unquoted strings per line
I realize the spec says maximum one unquoted string value per line, but I think there is room to relax that restriction. In testing with hjson-cpp I find that:
{
day: [ weekend, holiday ]
schedule: [
{ vals: [1,2,3] }
]
}
is successfully parsed, but as:
{
"day": [
"weekend, holiday ]",
"schedule: [",
{
"vals": [
1,
2,
3
]
}
]
}
That's not ideal. Quoting the strings "weekend" and "holiday" resolves the problem.
Also, this works fine:
{ one: 1, two: 2, three: 3, other: null }
but this one fails to parse:
{ one: 1, two: 2, three: 3, other: none }
Perhaps the following rule could be added to the spec.
When an unquoted array/object value appears on the same line as the array/object opening bracket/brace, the value will end at the first occurrence of any one of the characters , ] }
By limiting this rule to values which appear on the same line as the opening bracket/brace, the following will still work:
{
this: is OK though: {}[],:
}
At this point, I'm not really sure we can make breaking changes to the Hjson spec without causing issues for the people who use it, but I think it's a nice idea. If we were going to make this change to the spec, would we accommodate for the (likely tiny) number of Hjson users who write something like this?
{ path: .spec.containers[1].image
}
And how would we communicate to our users about it?