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Re: [Json] I-JSON Topic #5: Numbers

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 29 April 2014 17:07 UTC

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Tim Bray scripsit:

> It occurs to me that it would be super-useful for the draft to include
> explanation of how to follow this rule, including examples of printf and
> Java format strings.

I don't think that can be done for C: the behavior of sprintf on floats
is woefully underspecified.

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