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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by nly on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:24PM (#13870653)
I've implemented similarly constrained string representations for numerics for a config file format, but I ended up allowing both "1" and "1.0" so I could distinguish integer and floating point literals ("1.00" was still forbidden, as was "0.0"... zero was stored in a specially tagged way).

The exponent syntax in JSON is fun because it allows numerous representations of 0 and 1 using e.g. 0e1 and 7e0

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by seagreen on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:00PM (#13872303)
> I ended up allowing both "1" and "1.0" so I could distinguish integer and floating point literals

Definitely the toughest call when making a JSON subset like this.

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