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   will have been preventable (virtulis@loud.computer)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 21:26:54 JST will have been preventable

   • ✧✦Catherine✦✧
   • mei
   • bakkot

   @mei @bakkot @whitequark also does an undefined key equal an undefined value, and what about circular references...

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 21:26:53 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • mei
     • bakkot

     @virtulis @mei @bakkot these are all excellent questions but what i have here is less an attempt to answer them, and more a "if i need to compare two arrays today i am just throwing them into JSON.serialize and if it doesn't work it is a future me problem"

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 21:30:27 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • mei
     • bakkot

     @virtulis @mei @bakkot i can 100% see these questions becoming a multiple-year committee slog though..

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧
     • mei
     • bakkot

     @whitequark @mei @bakkot same tbh, i just use json-stable-stringify just in case.

     (Apparently there are also safe-stable-stringify and fast-json-stable-stringify, guess i've been missing out!)