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Re: [Json] -0.0

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Thu, 26 September 2013 18:57 UTC

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From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
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Hm, I bet that there are languages that look at the JSON number and if
there's no exp or frac parts, jam it into an integer; do modern *integer*
implementations preserve negative zero?


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:52 AM, R S <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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