Define “cyclic data structures”

Question

At the JSON site it says

JSON does not support cyclic data structures, so be careful to not give cyclical structures to the JSON stringifier.

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Answer 1

js> var a = {label:"a", next:null};
js> var b = {label:"b", next:a};
js> a.next = b; // cycle is created here
[object Object]
js> print(a.next.label);
b
js> print(a.next.next.label);
a
js> print(a.next.next.next.label);
b
js> print(a.next.next.next.next.label);
a