Re: [Json] Proposed minimal change for duplicate names in objects

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On Jul 7, 2013, at 20:43, John Cowan <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Carsten Bormann scripsit:
> 
>> In many JSON designs, the receiver knows the full set of keys ahead
>> of time.  In this case, you are better off with conditionally interning
>> it (i.e., if I already have the symbol, return it, otherwise keep the
>> string around, now we know that it didn't map to a known key).
> 
> I don't know any way to do that in Java, because there seems to be no
> way to ask if a string is interned except by interning it.

No idea about Java, but same problem at the language level in Ruby.
However, at the C API level, there is a conditional intern (rb_check_id()).
Too bad that this isn't exported to the Ruby level.

Grüße, Carsten