Re: Improving JSON pretty printing, how to represent floats?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/04/2024 12:39, Herman, Géza wrote:
> What would be the best representation for numbers in this case? I'm 
> thinking about using symbols, but I'm not sure this is the best 
> approach.  The parser/encoder would have a new keyword parameter, like 
> ":numbers-as-symbols t".  If this is specified, then numbers wouldn't be 
> parsed, but kept as symbols.  What do you think, is this a good approach?

Why not just use strings? Bignum implementations in various libs (other 
languages) often use strings in constructors.

Interning numbers in obarray doesn't seems like too great an idea.