���wrote " it is already part of the spec a few years already that
enumeration on the object keys MUST respect the order in which keys��������
were created".

I quoted two specs: json.org and the ECMA one.�� The current RFC
for JSON is, I believe, RFC 8259, which says

���� JSON parsing libraries have been observed to differ as to whether or
���� not they make the ordering of object members visible to calling��������
���� software.�� Implementations whose behavior does not depend on member
���� ordering will be interoperable in the sense that they will not be��
���� affected by these differences.

What this is saying is that some JSON libraries do preserve order and
some do NOT.�� There is no "de facto" standard specifying order
preservation.�� What's more, the language is warning you that if you rely
on order, you should NOT expect your program to interoperate with��
anything else and it is your fault if it doesn't.

If there is some other specification for JSON that requires order to be
preserved, tell us where to find it.��

This is not about JavaScript.�� JSON is not strictly compatible with

JavaScript anyway.�� Consider Python:

>>> json.loads('{"a":1,"b":2}')
{u'a': 1, u'b': 2}
>>> json.loads('{"b":2,"a":1}')
{u'a': 1, u'b': 2}

���Using JSON::Parse in Perl gives the same result; the order does not

matter.

I could go on all day listing JSON libraries, tools, and interfaces

that either never preserve key order or make that an esoteric use-

at-your-own-peril option.

���

When you are designing a protocol using JSON syntax,

and you want an ordered association between keys and

values, you can interoperably use something like

{ "__isOrderedObject__": true

, "keys":���� ["a","b"]

, "values": ���[1,�� 2�� ]

}

Just to repeat: if you can find any ISO, ECMA, ITU, or IETF

specification that says key order should be preserved, let's

hear about it.�� I have three JSON parsers I've written, and

I want them to be right.�� Not like the brand X package that

says it can sometimes fail to read back JSON that it wrote.