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   Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 03:26:04 JST Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:

   This should be valid JSON:

   {
   "n": [0, 1/6, 2]
   }

   But alas:

   "Invalid JSON!
   Error: Parse error on line 2:
   { "n": [0, 1/6, 2]}
   -------------^
   Expecting 'EOF', '}', ',', ']', got 'undefined'"

   Ugh.

   #javascript #programming

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 03:26:04 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @atoponce ...why would that be valid? You're inlining code, the whole point of JSON is that it doesn't need to evaluate code.

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     Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 03:31:46 JST Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc Yeah, I guess. 1/6 is a number though just as much as 0.16666666666666666. I guess I could do:

     {
     "n": [0, {"/": [1, 6]}, 2]
     }

     And handle the operation in my code, but that's annoying.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 03:31:46 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @atoponce In what programming languages is 1/6 a number and not code? Exact fractions (BigRational?) are a nice thing to have for some use cases, but I don't think many languages have them out of the box.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 03:33:26 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @atoponce What really irritates me about JSON is it doesn't support undefined, Infinity, -Infinity, or NaN.

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     Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 05:44:31 JST Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:

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     • she hacked you

     @ekis As a mathematician, I want real numbers. 1/6 is a real number, but in programming languages, it's an operation instead. This triggers my OCD.

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     she hacked you (ekis@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 05:44:32 JST she hacked you

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     @atoponce Why should it? You would be including an operator.

     "operators are constructs defined within programming languages which behave generally like functions"

     You would not want logic in JSON, one of the downsides would be security.

     ```
     {
     "n": [
     0,
     0.166666666667,
     2
     ]
     }
     ```

     Is no good? Also, if it did work, I'd expect it to require parenthesis.