Re: Pretty printing serialization

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@...>]

on 3/17/04 7:26 AM, Albert-Jan Brouwer at acj.brouwer@citeng.com wrote:

> Lastly, serialization of infinite numbers and numbers that are
> not a number requires special handling for which there are
> no good provisions.

I was pleasantly surprised just now to find that tonumber( "nan" ) does the
right thing. Similarly for the infinities. So, one could dump numbers by
testing for the special cases and writing out an appropriate tonumber call.

Mark