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

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 06 June 2013 22:37 UTC

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Nico Williams scripsit:

> Thinking of encoders that do not have full knowledge of an object as
> it is encoded, I'm uncomfortable with saying "MUST NOT send duplicate
> keys", since determining whether a given key has already been sent
> might require large amounts of state.  But note that this concern also
> applies to parsers!

The amount of state can be reduced probabilistically by storing hashes
of the values rather than the values themselves.

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