woops, wrong listserv :)
2013/4/5 Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com> > The following gist illustrates my question: > > https://gist.github.com/jcoveney/5320422 > > It seems pretty surprising to me that all of these cases all return 1.0, > at least in python (I will now do this in Java, it's just more verbose). Is > this an issue with python? Is this an issue period? Is this unexpected? > > At the very least, if you write 1 to ["int", "double"] you'd expect that > it'd get serialized as an int? Or is there a set of rules governing which > primitive type to choose? Is it implementation dependent? > > Also, the case where it throws an error, then returns 0 seems completely > wrong. Why would it do that at all? Is it that once it throws an error, it > gets into an inconsistent state and nothing is guaranteed? > > Thanks for helping me understand this! >
