On 11/15/2013 07:32 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 11/15/2013 04:00 PM, David Johnston wrote:
>> Looking at this a different way: could we just implement BSON and leave json
>> alone?
>>
>> http://bsonspec.org/
> In short? No.
>
> For one thing, our storage format is different from theirs (better,
> frankly), and as a result is not compliant with their "standard".
>
> That's a reason why we won't use the name BSON, either, since it's a
> trademark of 10gen.
>
What is more, it has restrictions which we do not wish to have. See for
example its treatment of numerics.
cheers
andrew
