You are not the only one. I read that and thought it was the most awkward phrase you could have picked. Not because JSON isn't an encoding though ("JSON-encode

You are not the only one. I read that and thought it was the most awkward phrase you could have picked. Not because JSON isn't an encoding though ("JSON-encoded" makes sense to me) but because saying "hash" instead of "hash table" or "associative array" or pretty much anything else is uncomfortable -- the word hash on its own generally refers to a hash function rather than the data structure.