On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 23:29:56 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 23:05:48 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
I don't think it is a concern as JSON does not encode types.
It is up to the receiver how to interpret the data. Here is
the output of the program above:
{"value":"1.2345678899999998901"}
Ali
JSON may not encode the very specific type the language that
created it was using, but it does differ between strings and
numbers. {"value":"1.2345678899999998901"} is different from
{"value":1.2345678899999998901}, virtually any JSON
implementation for any language(there might be exceptions -
maybe TCL) will parse them to different language constructs,
and code that expect one may fail, crash or misbehave when
given the other.
That's exactly my problem. The remote PC expects a numeric value
with a precision of up to 6 floating points. So using a string
instead of float would cause an error.
