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		jscheel 54 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation For repeating objects of the same structure, yaml will still require each key on each object, whereas this is a hybrid with csv, so it defines the keys once.

3cats-in-a-coat 54 days ago [–]

No one forces us to use objects in JSON with repeated keys you know.

makapuf 54 days ago | | [–]

Indeed a

    {"header": ["some","column","names"], "values": [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],...]}

could fit.

jscheel 54 days ago | | [–]

For sure, but most people aren't thinking intentionally about what they are dumping into their context either ;)

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