Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON?
Pete Cordell <petejson@codalogic.com> Fri, 26 February 2021 14:55 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON?
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On 26/02/2021 13:59, John Cowan wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 7:49 AM Anders Rundgren > <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com <mailto:anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > If the standard-to-be is supposed to interoperate with browsers and > node.js the only viable option is RFC7493. > > If the standard-to-be also targets the financial market, further > constraints apply since floating point arithmetic is ill-suited for > monetary operations. E.g. a monetary amount of 46.99 should be > represented in JSON as the string "46.99". > > > RFC 8259 incorporates all of the restrictions of 7493 as > interoperability warnings, including the one above. That way it stays > compatible with ECMA-404 (which has no such restrictions or warnings) > but still steers you away from the dark corners of JSON. RFC 8259 tells you "that way lies madness" but doesn't actually tell you to not to go that way! RFC 7493 makes it explicit not to go that way for those that might otherwise say "well you didn't tell me not to...". Pete. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pete Cordell Codalogic Ltd C++ tools for C++ programmers, http://codalogic.com Read & write XML in C++, http://www.xml2cpp.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- [Json] JSON or I-JSON? Pete Cordell
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? Anders Rundgren
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? Carsten Bormann
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? John Cowan
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? Pete Cordell
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? Pete Cordell
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? Tim Bray
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? David Kemp
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? John Cowan
- Re: [Json] JSON or I-JSON? Phillip Hallam-Baker