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Re: [Json] Allow any JSON value at the top level

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 07 June 2013 20:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Allow any JSON value at the top level
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On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> Ah, no, what a braino.  /me is embarrassed.

No, not a braino after all.  Since we'd not have two NUL bytes in a
row in any encoding other than UTF-32.  There'd be no ambiguity, even
with single-character values (numbers).

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