bug#42994: [External] : bug#42994: 27.1; json-serialize unable to serialize JSON values

[Philipp Stephani]

Am So., 14. Feb. 2021 um 01:40 Uhr schrieb Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
<wyuenho@gmail.com>:
>
> If the original intention for `json-serialize` was to offer a
> functionally equivalent native version of `json-encode`, then this is a
> bug. There was no discussion about this mismatch whatsover, so my guess
> is this was an omission and thus a bug.

Yes, replicating json-encode was not the intention.

>
> On 13/02/2021 11:30 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
> >> Thanks!  Does this need calling out in etc/NEWS, or is it considered
> >> more of a bugfix?
> > (Again, not really following this thread.)
> >
> > If Emacs support of JSON parsing or serializing
> > changes from considering only objects and arrays
> > to be "jsons" to considering also JSON scalars
> > to be "jsons", then that's not a bug fix; it's
> > a change in support of the JSON language.  IMO,
> > that should be called out somewhere such as NEWS.