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Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by jfk13 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:15PM (#19993692)
Presumably that could be confusing if you ever happen to have an actual array whose first element is the string "bigint".
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Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by hombre_fatal on Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:43PM (#19994010)
Well, no matter what you do, surely you plan on documenting your API to such a bare bones level that your user isn't racking their brain whether a key is a number or an array of data.
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Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by repsilat on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:53PM (#19995802)
Nah, you just have to also encode all arrays like

    ["array", [...]]
;-)
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