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

Vinny A <jsontest@yahoo.com> Wed, 05 June 2013 22:47 UTC

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From: Vinny A <jsontest@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:46:42 -0500
To: Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com>
Cc: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, "json@ietf.org" <json@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be unique.
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On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com> wrote:
> There are people who interpreted the SHOULD as DON'T HAVE TO and intentionally duplicated the keys. My personal feeling is that we should change the SHOULD to MUST and let those applications break. But the consensus of ECMA TC39 is that the SHOULD must stand.

My personal opinion echoes yours. I understand ECMA's consensus though.

On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com> wrote:
> So regrettably, that means we should be explicit about what happens when this particular bad practice is practiced.

Do we need to add this to the draft? As in (not proposing this, but as fodder for discussion): "The names within an object SHOULD be unique. If duplicate names are encountered, the last key:value pair MUST be used."

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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Vinny A
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Allen Wirfs-Brock
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Allen Wirfs-Brock
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Allen Wirfs-Brock
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Allen Wirfs-Brock
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stefan Drees
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stephen Dolan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Paul Hoffman
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stephen Dolan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stefan Drees
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stephan Beal
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Levine
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stephen Dolan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Jorge Chamorro
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Jorge Chamorro
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Jorge Chamorro
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Tatu Saloranta
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