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

[Herman , Géza]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> 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.

Because then the original type is lost: Later it's not possible to 
tell whether a value was a number or a string originally.

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

That's correct, my idea is to use uninterned symbols 
(make-symbol).