Question on schema resolution and type promotion.
The spec currently allows for the writer's schema to be promoted to the
reader's as follows:
* int is promotable to long, float, or double
* long is promotable to float or double
* float is promotable to double
I was wondering if this could be extended to allow for int and long types to be
promoted to a string. This seems like it would be a fairly standard procedure
in most client languages. For example in Java, this would be
Integer.toString(int) and Long.toString(long).
I am happy to create a patch for this, but I wanted to know if this is
something that is worth pursuing, or if this is something you see as being done
client-side after the record is read.
