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		jfk13 on May 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BigInt Shipping in Firefox Presumably that could be confusing if you ever happen to have an actual array whose first element is the string "bigint".

hombre_fatal on May 23, 2019 | [–]

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.

repsilat on May 23, 2019 | [–]

Nah, you just have to also encode all arrays like

    ["array", [...]]

;-)

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