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Re: Draft JSON specification for CIF

> 3. We have again run into the CIF quirk of having two distinct null values,> whereas JSON has only one.  Although the two-character string "\\?" is> certainly reminiscent of the special CIF ? value (as "\\." would be> reminiscent of the . value), why not instead choose a value such as "\u0001"> or "\uFFFF", which will never appear in a conforming instance of CIF’s> native serialization?
Maybe boolean false instead of "\u0001"? Boolean types will also never appear._______________________________________________cif-developers mailing listcif-developers@iucr.orghttp://mailman.iucr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cif-developers

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