"inf" creates invalid JSON

[nhthn]

sclang.interpret("inf");
-> Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token I in JSON at position 0

[crucialfelix]

I guess there is no legal way to represent those in JSON. They are valid JavaScript, but not valid JSON.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1423081/json-left-out-infinity-and-nan-json-status-in-ecmascript

It is because they are properties of window, not primitive types. window.Infinity - anybody could redefine that.

JSON.parse('{"num": Infinity}')
VM1027:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token I in JSON at position 8
    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
    at <anonymous>:1:6
(anonymous) @ VM1026:1

// maybe just use a string for now
JSON.parse('{"num": "Infinity"}')
Object {num: "Infinity"}

I could convert the JSON.parse result to real Infinity objects

[nhthn]

My workaround for now is to preprocess the object by replacing infinities with the strings "Infinity" and "-Infinity", and in JS I can postprocess numeric values using the unary + operator.