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0 pointsint_19h1y ago0 comments

There are so many things that are poorly thought out or underspecified in JSON, it's amazing that it got so widely adopted for interop. No wonder that it became a perpetual source of serialization bugs.

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lifthrasiir1y ago

Especially annoying given that they could have been easily adopted. Infinity could've been encoded as `1/0` (among most other possibilities). NaN could've been encoded as `0/0` (again, among most other possibilities). JSON doesn't allow all possible JavaScript literals anyway, so these encodings might have been worked if they were somehow standardized.

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