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EGreg on April 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why does JSON have commas?

And iOS programming makes you fill dictionaries with alternating k,v,k,v,nil

frizlab on April 6, 2025 [–]

*The Swift language (not only iOS programming at all)

*it is one way of initializing a dictionary. Literal way has a closer to JSON form.

EDIT: Oh you seem to be talking about ObjC it seems! I did not see the nil. Literal way is still more akin to JSON though.

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