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Re: CIF-JSON new draft

That's true. I hadn't thought of that. Of course, that's what the === operator is for.


Never mind.

John, what's the issue?


On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Marcin Wojdyr <wojdyr@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3 May 2017 at 23:41, Robert Hanson <hansonr@stolaf.edu> wrote:
> John has an interesting point. For example:
>
> {
> "_chemical_formula_sum": null
> }
>
> cannot be distinguished easily from
>
> {
> }
>
> (You can iterate through all keys to see if one is missing, but that is not
> typically how it is done.)

If it's about JS I don't understand your point. In one case the
property is null and in the other it's undefined. Clearly different.

Marcin
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