[Cbor] Re: Dealing with -0.0, NaN, and Infinity

[Anders Rundgren <[e-mail]>]

On 2024-08-21 14:43, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2024-08-21, at 12:44, Anders Rundgren <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> There is no question, it just emphasizes how an ES "CBOR" object could be a better mousetrap than the current ES "JSON" object.  It is called "marketing" :)
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> Ah.  Certainly adding direct support (i.e., outside of other libraries that already need it) for CBOR to JavaScript would make a lot of sense.
> BTW, I don’t think adding a ton of booleans to a constructor is a great way to handle different application requirements here (and describing the normal, non-CDE case by the “marketing” word “lenient” also doesn’t help).

Do you any other solution in mind?  When thinking more about it (thanx!), this seems like an excellent place for a "builder" like API pattern:

let decoder = CBOR.initExtended(cbor).rejectNaNs(true).somethingElse(arg) etc etc.

Better?

Anders

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> Grüße, Carsten
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