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I've seen people fail questions for this reason. We even tell them not to go down a certain path, or not to worry about optimizing the solution. But they keep on trying to go down the clever path.

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The problem is ego. People don't act like the JSON that computers think like. An array in JSON can represent an unordered set, but people order it according to how they can become superior to others. People should be more like JSON.

> People should be more like JSON.

So needlessly verbose and unable to handle comments?

Oh, and unable to intrinsically distinguish dates from text, or real numbers from integers?

5.0 is real. 5 is integer.

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