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@@ -1237,6 +1237,12 @@ namespace build2
// of what looks like harmless looseness in a few contexts (such as the
// $json.member_*() functions).
//
+ // Note that similar to map, JSON object append/+= is overriding while
+ // prepend/=+ is not. In a sense, whatever appears last (from left to right)
+ // is kept, which is consistent with what we expect to happen when
+ // specifying the same name repeatedly (provided it's not considered
+ // invalid) in a representation (e.g., {"a":1,"a":2}).
+ //
template <>
struct LIBBUILD2_SYMEXPORT value_traits<json_value>
{