On Jul25, 2011, at 07:35 , Joey Adams wrote:
> 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.
+1.
best regards,
Florian Pflug
