Re: [Json] -0.0

R S <sayrer@gmail.com> Thu, 26 September 2013 18:52 UTC

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

> Well, except for the very first thing I tried, a modern Ruby with the
> default "require 'json'", did not preserve the sign.
>

I bet they would take a patch, though. I was wondering whether we were
enshrining a bug in the spec or catering to other floating point
implementations.

- Rob