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Re: CIF-JSON draft 2017-05-08

On 11 May 2017 at 08:28, James Hester <jamesrhester@gmail.com> wrote:> The problem with requiring that CIF numbers = JSON numbers is that it is not> generally possible for a CIF->JSON parser to know when a CIF value is a> number instead of simply a non-delimited string that looks like a number.
I forgot about it. Indeed, it's a valid argument.
When I started experimenting with CIF parser a few months ago Inoticed that some programs (I think cif2cif was one of them) justtreat what looks like a number as a number, ignoring the ambiguityleft in the CIF spec. But this indeed would not be fully specconforming. Forget about my previous email.
> The consumer of the JSON, on the other hand, will know which of the> datanames that it cares about are numeric and perform the conversion (as per> CIF rules, I don't know if the C++17 standard is relevant here).
I meant that there is no simple way to a write numb parser in C/C++ otherwise.
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