Has any programming language defined a data-definition subset which is truly lossless and truly a subset? Something like JSON is to Java, but with rigor. The forward compatibility problem is more subtle than it seems, e.g. as Eric Lippert describes:https://ericlippert.com/2009/05/11/reserved-and-contextual-keywords/ …
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Right, that's what I thought, but wanted to clarify. Lisp S-expression do seem to be the primeval example of that.
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Especially the Scheme version where symbols are just identifiers as opposed to Common Lisp symbols which are rich data structure which are read in a package-relative way.
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