Re: Draft JSON specification for CIF

• Subject: Re: Draft JSON specification for CIF
• From: Robert Hanson <hansonr@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:43:42 -0500
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You mean because in CIF2 you can put "." in, with quotes to mean an actual dot, or without quotes to mean NULL, is that the issue? I do like \u0000 (unicode NULL) for CIF ".' NULL. How about U+FFFD for "?" ?  Here's what they look like on my machine:



What I meant by "not an issue" is that if everything is a string, then there isn't the issue that some "numerical" values are numbers and some are strings of some sort.

Bob

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Marcin Wojdyr <wojdyr@gmail.com> wrote:

Bob,

> - This adds the unnecessary complication of what to do with "." and "?"

I think you imply that . and ? should be expressed in JSON as "." and "?".
But this would be ambiguous: JSON "?" could mean either unknown or string "?".

Marcin

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