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Is the inherited property `null` an array property? #851

Closed xrotwang closed 7 years ago

xrotwang commented 7 years ago

Reading the spec, it wasn't clear to me, whether null is supposed to be an array - but I guess it must be, right? If so, the docs should be more explicit.

gkellogg commented 7 years ago

The definition for null describes it as being an Atomic Property The definition for atomic property describes the legitimate values:

Therefore both "NULL" and ["NULL"] would be acceptable. This seems reasonably explicit to me.

xrotwang commented 7 years ago

I agree; I think I was confused by the - for me more explicit - specification for lineTerminators, which mentions arrays - but I see now that this is a different context.