On Tue, May 29, 2018, 22:21 Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> wrote:

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> João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 29. Mai 2018 um
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>> I used a global to control json-serialize's interpretation of lists, but
>> it could be an argument as well.
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> Please don't add global state to json.c. It's a low-level library that
> shouldn't rely on global state (and global state should generally be
> avoided in libraries). Not having global state was one of my explicit
> design goals for json.c
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Well, it's not really "global state" in the sense I believe you're talking
about, because no part of the library is maintaining any state in global
variables -- it's read-only from json.c.

That said, if that's your only objection, consider that duck removed :)

João