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[Json] Duplicate names: are they erroneous or not?

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Sun, 07 July 2013 05:53 UTC

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What I wish to avoid is a specification that says that having two
fields of the same name in an object is a perfectly okay thing to do.
In other words, such documents for my purposes have to be erroneous,
rather than a legitimate way of encoding multimaps.  Is there anyone
who can't live with that restriction?

If there isn't anyone, then we can talk about whether this is an error
that generators and/or parsers MUST or SHOULD detect.  But if we can't
even get consensus on that much, it's futile to discuss parser or
generator behavior.

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