From efe15f575400d5adc254ea100e595550ebd544eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Krause <contact@flyx.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:25:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Parse +-Inf and NaN into JSON

---
 src/private/json.nim | 6 ++++++
 src/yaml.nim         | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/private/json.nim b/src/private/json.nim
index 504d070..da3201c 100644
--- a/src/private/json.nim
+++ b/src/private/json.nim
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ proc jsonFromScalar(content: string, tag: TagId,
     of yTypeFloat:
         result.kind = JFloat
         result.fnum = parseFloat(content)
+    of yTypeFloatInf:
+        result.kind = JFloat
+        result.fnum = if content[0] == '-': NegInf else: Inf
+    of yTypeFloatNaN:
+        result.kind = JFloat
+        result.fnum = NaN
     of yTypeBoolTrue:
         result.kind = JBool
         result.bval = true
diff --git a/src/yaml.nim b/src/yaml.nim
index bb8c76c..95f5826 100644
--- a/src/yaml.nim
+++ b/src/yaml.nim
@@ -294,6 +294,13 @@ proc parseToJson*(s: Stream): seq[JsonNode]
     ## representation. The input may not contain any tags apart from those in
     ## ``coreTagLibrary``. Anchors and aliases will be resolved. Maps in the
     ## input must not contain non-scalars as keys.
+    ##
+    ## **Warning:** The special float values ``[+-]Inf`` and ``NaN`` will be
+    ## parsed into Nim's JSON structure without error. However, they cannot be
+    ## rendered to a JSON character stream, because these values are not part
+    ## of the JSON specification. Nim's JSON implementation currently does not
+    ## check for these values and will output invalid JSON when rendering one
+    ## of these values into a JSON character stream.
     
 proc parseToJson*(s: string): seq[JsonNode]
     ## see `parseToJson <#parseToJson,Stream,seq[JsonNode]>`_