From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKRwd-0002dr-Rl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:03:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKRwZ-0002bn-AC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:03:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48859 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKRwZ-0002bk-4S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:03:23 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:37336) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKRwY-0000ub-D5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:03:22 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com ([209.85.219.211]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKRwX-00068F-J3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:03:21 -0400 Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so3582398ewy.34 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:03:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A45232F.50306@codemonkey.ws> References: <4A412339.5000109@redhat.com> <4A4395B8.4010401@redhat.com> <4A43BD5D.80307@codemonkey.ws> <4A43C264.6060803@redhat.com> <4A43D600.8060605@codemonkey.ws> <4A449113.8070907@redhat.com> <4A44CB74.1070808@codemonkey.ws> <4A44E2F3.8050804@codemonkey.ws> <5b31733c0906261036o272bcd8xffc0f2e209b778a5@mail.gmail.com> <4A45232F.50306@codemonkey.ws> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:03:20 +0200 Message-ID: <5b31733c0906270003k557934b3u702e1fa5388d01e9@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file From: Filip Navara Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: "ehabkost@redhat.com" , Stefano Stabellini , "jan.kiszka@siemens.com" , "dlaor@redhat.com" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Luiz Capitulino , Avi Kivity , Vincent Hanquez On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Anthony Liguori wro= te: > Filip Navara wrote: >> =A0and not >> all floats can be represented (eg. NaN). > > I'm not sure that's so important. =A0JSON doesn't support NaN. BTW, JSON doesn't even pretend to support floats. What it supports is a notation to write decimal fractions, in many languages that maps to the DECIMAL type (number with sign, mantissa and exponent in base-10) and not float. Calling it float is a misnomer. Best regards, Filip Navara