Rendering a reference appears to do a truthiness check because false renders an empty string despite rendering as "false" in an array element.

js/test_cases/not_exists/input1.json

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+{"things": ["Alice", "Bob", "Chris"]}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input10.json

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+{"things": {}}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input11.json

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+["cat", "dog"]

js/test_cases/not_exists/input2.json

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+{"things": {"name": "Alice", "keyboard": "K-Type"}}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input3.json

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+{"there_are_no_things": 4}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input4.json

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+{"things": "just a string"}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input5.json

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+{"things": false}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input6.json

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+{"things": null}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input7.json

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+{"things": 0}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input8.json

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+{"things": ""}

js/test_cases/not_exists/input9.json

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+{"things": []}

js/test_cases/not_exists/main.dust

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+{^things}
+Thing: {things}
+{:else}
+No things {.}
+{/things}