bug#24252: 25.1; json.el doesn't distinguish null and empty object

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:36:35 +0200
> Cc: Philipp Stephani <phst@google.com>, Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>,
>       Theresa O'Connor <ted@oconnor.cx>, 24252@debbugs.gnu.org,
>       Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:
> > Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:
> >> please find a patch attached. This patch uses :json-null to distinguish,
> >> during pretty-print, between the value null and an empty object.
> >
> > It looks good to me, but I'm wondering if encoding/decoding (not
> > pretty-printing) will be backward-compatible or not.
> 
> no one who has worked on this module before is willing to review this
> small change?

Sorry about that.  From my POV, Nico asked a question that I didn't
see answered, so the patch is still "being discussed", as far as I'm
concerned.  If you can address Nicolas's concern, we should be able to
move ahead.

Thanks.