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

Matt Miller <mamille2@cisco.com> Mon, 19 May 2014 19:30 UTC

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On 5/1/14, 12:19 PM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) wrote:
> Subnormals are allowed in JSON, I believe.  They probably don't
> interop quite as expected if you're using C and have -O1 or higher
> turned on (for example).
> 
> On 4/28/14, 3:11 PM, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well, they?re disallowed in JSON let alone i-json so I?d have
>> hoped we can ignore them.
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) 
>> <jhildebr@cisco.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Will we need to talk about subnormals, -0, NaN, Infinity, and the
>> like?
> 

Hello Joe,

could you provide more detail of what the concern here is?  I suspect
you have been too terse so far.


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Matt Miller < mamille2@cisco.com >
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