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Re: [Json] serializing sequences of JSON values

"Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com> Sun, 09 March 2014 16:41 UTC

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From: "Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 12:41:21 -0400
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Right. That gets us back to the old definition.  Writing an array or object makes sense, but an integer and then another seems like it just makes things unnecessarily confusing.  Somewhere, somehow there must be whitespace inserted between those.

Paul


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Subject: Re: [Json] serializing sequences of JSON values

Larry Masinter scripsit:

> If you want to write out a sequence of JSON values you would write them out as an array with [] around and comma separators.

That would be a single JSON value, not a sequence thereof.

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