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		mercurial on Oct 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf] > It simplifies generating JSON, since you don't need a special case for the last item In which language can't you do array.join(",")? You can even do that in Java with one of the myriad of string libraries. I haven't hand-coded joins since (at least) six or seven years.

lttlrck on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

Join doesn't help to stream to JSON from a database cursor. Unless you buffer the response first which is pretty horrid.

mercurial on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

Fair point.

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