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Part of a website’s JSON response had this (… added for context):
{..., now:function(){return(new Date).getTime()}, ...}
Is adding anonymous functions to JSON valid? I would expect each time you access ‘time’ to return a different value.
No.
JSON is purely meant to be a data description language. As noted on http://www.json.org, it is a “lightweight data-interchange format.” – not a programming language.
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON, the “basic types” supported are:
point)
with backslash escaping)
(true and false)
sequence of values, comma-separated
and enclosed in square brackets)
pairs, comma-separated and enclosed
in curly braces)
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