Re: integer in EXI4JSON

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Takuki Kamiya <tkamiya@us.fujitsu.com>
wrote:

In the case of “decimal”, probably we have not seen a good use case to use
> it in EXI4JSON.
>
> I tend to agree that we drop “decimal”.
>

If you leave it out, it is not possible to do 1:1 conversion between
arbitrary JSON and EXI4JSON.  For example, a number greater than 1e308 can
only be represented as decimal, or a number that requires more than 17
digits of precision.

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