Encoding NaN in JSON

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-04-18, Wayne Werner <wayne at waynewerner.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Miki Tebeka wrote:
>
>>>> I'm trying to find a way to have json emit float('NaN') as 'N/A'.
>>> No.  There is no way to represent NaN in JSON.  It's simply not part of the
>>> specification.
>> I know that. I'm trying to emit the *string* 'N/A' for every NaN.
>
> Why not use `null` instead? It seems to be semantically more similar...

Why not use 'NaN' instead? It seems to be even more semantically
similar...

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