> Aren't JSON parsers technically not following the standard if they don't reliably store a number that is not representable by a IEEE754 double precision float?
That sentence has four negations and I honestly can't figure out what it means.
>> Aren't JSON parsers technically not following the standard if they don't reliably store a number that is not representable by a IEEE754 double precision float?
>That sentence has four negations and I honestly can't figure out what it means.
This example is halfway as bad as the one Orwell gives in my favorite essay, "Politics the the English Language"¹.
Compare and contrast:
>I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien (sic) to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate.
that Orwell quote can be saved a lot by proper punctuation
I am not, indeed, sure*,* whether it is not true to say that the Milton *(*who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley*)* had not become *-* out of an experience *-* ever more bitter in each year, more alien (sic) to the founder of that Jesuit sect*,* which nothing could induce him to tolerate.
Has the proper punctuation allowed you to see that there's an extra negation there that makes the sentence say the exact opposite of what the author intended it to say?
That sentence has four negations and I honestly can't figure out what it means.