On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should we mimic IEEE floats and preserve -0 versus +0 while treating
> them as equal? Or should we treat JSON floats like numeric and
> convert -0 to 0 on input? Or should we do something else? I think
> converting -0 to 0 would be a bad idea, as it would violate the
> intuitive assumption that JSON can be used to marshal double-precision
> floats.
On the other hand, JavaScript's own .toString and JSON.stringify turn
-0 into 0, so JSON can't marshal -0 around, anyway (in practice). Now
I think turning -0 into 0 would be fine for canonicalizing numbers in
json_in.
- Joey
