[Xml-compile] $_[0] + 0.0 for sloppy floats

[Chase Whitener]

Sorry about that, I could have provided a more useful link to where the
conversation started: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/mojo/2014-11-27#i_9730172

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Chase Whitener <cwhitener at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I think Mojo::JSON handled the booleans about as well as can be expected
> with Perl.
>
> examples:
>
> perl -Mojo -E 'my $true_scalar = "1"; my $false_scalar = "0"; say j([1,
> "1", \1, Mojo::JSON->true, \$true_scalar, 0, "0", \0, Mojo::JSON->false,
> \$false_scalar])'
>
> perl -Mojo -E 'say j([1, \1, Mojo::JSON->true])'
>
> IRC conversation about it:
> http://irclog.perlgeek.de/mojo/2014-11-27
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Mark Overmeer <mark at overmeer.net> wrote:
>>
>> * Patrick Powell (papowell at astart.com) [141216 15:34]:
>> > Ummm... and look at JSON and 'true' and 'false'.
>>
>> Correct.  In Apache::Solr, I ended up building tables of fields and which
>> are boolean, to automatically translate Perl's concept of booleans into
>> Solr's URI parameters.
>>
>> IMO Perl libraries should attempt to hide the typedness of interfaces...
>> JSON itself is on a too basic level to do it itself.  But interfaces
>> which transport their data via JSON could (should?) try to automate the
>> required conversions... often quite some work.
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>>                MarkOv
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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