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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-616:
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Github user jjmeyer0 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/392
@cestella I thought about the case where a number such as '12345678910'
should be considered a long or not. The biggest reason why I chose not to go
this way, was because we were basing many things on the way Java does things,
and Java would throw a compile time error if this example was not followed by
any l/L. Also, I had some concerns in a scenario where two integers were added,
a long was automatically created from them, and then passed to a function that
only accepts integers. In this case a very interesting error may occur, and
confuse end users. Not sure if any of those are valid, but that was my thought
process. What do you think?
> Add Support in Stellar for Long and Float Literals
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> Key: METRON-616
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-616
> Project: Metron
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Josh Meyer
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> Currently Stellar only supports literals for doubles and integers. However,
> it is possible for functions to return longs and floats. An example, are the
> timestamp functions. These will return a long. It would be useful for a
> Stellar user to also use Java style floats and longs (eg. 3L, 3F, 3.3f,
> etc.).
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