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Re:Ren: a lightweight data-exchange text format by jpfed on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:56PM (#15517798)
As a native English speaker, I agree that "unknown" is better than "none".
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Re:Ren: a lightweight data-exchange text format by always_good on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:21PM (#15518004)
I would hope that a native English speaker knows the difference between

Cookies in the jar: none

and

Cookies in the jar: unknown

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Re:Ren: a lightweight data-exchange text format by greggirwin on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:40PM (#15518162)
Unknown is a nice word for this, yes. And while we don't focus exclusively on being terse in the Redbol world, "unknown" is a lot more work to type than "none", harder to scan visually as well.
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