post script - as it happened I was curious enough about JSON versus data structures to try getting it to handle something more than just text keys. So I wrote an experiment about using enumerations - see:
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post script - as it happened I was curious enough about JSON versus data structures to try getting it to handle something more than just text keys. So I wrote an experiment about using enumerations - see: