Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be unique.

R S <sayrer@gmail.com> Sat, 08 June 2013 05:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be unique.
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On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:37 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Allen Wirfs-Brock scripsit:
>
> > In general, the ECMAScript specification is hyper prescriptive about
> > many behaviors, such as this, that traditionally would have been
> > considered reasonable areas to allow implementation variability.
>
> I've often wondered why ECMAScript remains silent about the order
> of property enumeration.



It is largely uniform, but iirc there are differences in implementations
when enumerating properties that are array indices, and no consensus on
resolving the differences there.

- Rob