alt Hacker NewsWell what's more readable, .8675309 that is understood to have an implicit zero, or the parser giving up and unexpectedly making it a string? Maybe it's not your preference but I can't see any problem with making this more robust. The trailing one is strange to me but leaving off a leading zero isn't unusual at all for written numbers in my experience.
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404mm • 12/09/2024
IMO the implicit zero is just as much an issue in regular written form. The period could be overlooked quite easily, but seeing a leading 0, one will know what’s really going on.
How could the parser see it as a string? This is not YAML and JSON5 still requires quotation marks.
> Well what's more readable, .8675309 that is understood to have an implicit zero
Is it universally understood? I think it's a US / English thing. In my country I've never seen numbers written in this way and many people would not "parse" it mentally as 0.8675309