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logn on Oct 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a ...

I think they used null for deletion because undefined isn't in the JSON spec. It's more of a Javascript standard.

drderidder on Oct 30, 2014 [–]

Thanks, you're right. "null" is what I do use - I forgot undefined won't work with JSON.parse. It would be nice to have a way to explicitly define a property as null, versus non-extant.

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