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

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Sat, 08 June 2013 03:37 UTC

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Allen Wirfs-Brock scripsit:

> In general, the ECMAScript specification is hyper prescriptive about
> many behaviors, such as this, that traditionally would have been
> considered reasonable areas to allow implementation variability. 

I've often wondered why ECMAScript remains silent about the order
of property enumeration.

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