alt Hacker NewsI never understood leading dot until I understood that native speakers indeed say ".3" (point three).
Trailing makes it a floating point type instead of an integer
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SV_BubbleTime • 12/09/2024
Right, you guys say like “naught point three”… sounds just as weird to us as ours does to you.
Still… I can be required to put a zero in, read 0.3, and still think “that’s point three”.
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Trailing to signal a floating point seems like to niche of a use case to me. Generally it's best to treat every JSON number literal as a 64-bit float anyway for the sake of interoperability.