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

[John Cowan <[e-mail]>]

Jorge Chamorro scripsit:

> If duplicate names are generally considered a no-no, and given that
> they're mostly used for comments (usually with the key "//"), and
> given the security risks discussed in the "command":"launch-missiles"
> thread, perhaps the best thing to do with the duplicate keys and their
> values might be to simply drop them altogether, not throw any errors,
> not nothing, just drop them, all of them, including the last one.

This ignores a very important reason for not defining what to do with them,
which is so that streaming generators and parsers don't have to keep track
of what keys they have already processed.

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