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Deep recursion order is inconsistent #43

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With input like this:

{
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName" : "doe",
  "age"      : 26,
  "address"  : {
    "streetAddress": "naist street",
    "city"         : "Nara",
    "postalCode"   : "630-0192"
  },
  "phoneNumbers": [
    {
      "type"  : "iPhone",
      "number": "0123-4567-8888",
      "third": {
          "deep": "third level"
      }
    },
    {
      "type"  : "home",
      "number": "0123-4567-8910"
    }
  ],
  "last": "this should be last"
}

And a query of:

$..*@string()

You would expect to get this for output paths:

[
  "$['firstName']",
  "$['lastName']",
  "$['address']['streetAddress']",
  "$['address']['city']",
  "$['address']['postalCode']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][0]['type']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][0]['number']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][0]['third']['deep']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][1]['type']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][1]['number']",
  "$['last']"
]

Instead, you get this:

[
  "$['firstName']",
  "$['lastName']",
  "$['last']",
  "$['address']['streetAddress']",
  "$['address']['city']",
  "$['address']['postalCode']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][0]['type']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][0]['number']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][0]['third']['deep']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][1]['type']",
  "$['phoneNumbers'][1]['number']"
]

At first I thought it was doing "breadth first" instead of "depth first" recursion, but this isn't consistent either. It does all the first level items "breadth first" but then does nested data "depth first". Note where "$['phoneNumbers'][0]['third']['deep']" appears in the list.

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