Re: What's a Number? Was: TJSON

ENOUGH WITH THE EMAILS!

Let's get it on a discussion forum with notifications of updates.

Andrew B. Brown
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Anders Rundgren <
anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:

> There's probably a single data type in JSON that cause 99% of the problems
> and that's numbers.
>
> The scientific people want 80-bits IEEE
> The Java/Python/C# folks want true 64-bit integers
> The crypto geeks want really big integers
> The financial guys want big decimals
>
> These problems stem from JavaScript and they all have the same
> solution/workaround; put the data in a JSON "string".
>
> Does this limitation/deficiency motivate a [sort of] new JSON?
>
> In my book it does not but it seems that a lot of other people think it is
> a great idea so I can only wish you good luck!
>
> Anders
>
>

Received on Friday, 4 November 2016 05:18:09 UTC