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Re:Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language f... by masklinn on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @04:10AM (#17660475)
> Invalid JSON parsing as `null` would be an exciting API decision, haha.

PHP's json_decode does that. And yes `null` is also returned as a PHP NULL.

> Though it is messier -- in Python `key in d` is well entrenched as an idiom, and in JS `if(d.key)` misfires if the value is zero

Or false, or null, or the empty string, or NaN.

FWIW `if (key in d)` also works in JS if d is a native object, though you need `d.has(key)` if d is an actual Map object instead.

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