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Re: [Json] Minus Zero

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 21 June 2016 15:42 UTC

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Anders Rundgren scripsit:

> Implementstions do NOT agree on floating point serialization.  Neither text
> (like E or e), leading zeroes or even values are to be counted on.

Disagreement on the lexical details of production does not mean disagreement
on interpretation, which is what is at stake here.  Nobody supposes that
10, 1e1, 1E1, 10.0, 10.00 mean different things.  The same is not true for
0.0 and -0.0.

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