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Comment by PuerkitoBio | Hacker News Reader

Only quoteless strings have no escapes, and according to the docs the rule is:

  > quoteless strings include everything up to the end of the
  > line, excluding trailing whitespace.

(edit: formatting)

So this

{

  foo:one,

  bar:two

}

Parses to "one," because it is a quoteless string?

What about true and false, is false the boolean constant or a unquoted string "false".

I posted this in another thread here, but it's documented in the linked page:

  > A value that is a number, true, false or null in JSON is parsed as a value.
  > E.g. '3' is a valid number while '3 times' is a string.