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Question: if whitespace isn't significant, how does it determine ambiguity? Like, if I have a Person that has a Dog, and both have a Name attribute. If I then add a Name after my dog definition, how does it know if it's the name of the dog or the person?

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That took some design work! In the end, KSON settled on something called the "end dot", which denotes the end of an object (more details in the docs, at https://kson.org/docs/syntax/#the-end-dot).

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