RFC: std.json sucessor

[Don via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 23:29:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/25/2014 4:15 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
> <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>> On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 21:24:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I didn't know that. But recall I did implement it in DMC++, 
>>> and it turned out
>>> to simply not be useful. I'd be surprised if the new C++ 
>>> support for it does
>>> anything worthwhile.
>>
>> Well, one should initialize with signaling NaN. Then you get 
>> an exception if you
>> try to compute using uninitialized values.
>
>
> That's the theory. The practice doesn't work out so well.

To be more concrete:

Processors from AMD have signalling NaN behaviour which is 
different from processors from Intel.

And the situation is worst on most other architectures. It's a 
lost cause, I think.