emkornfield commented on PR #485:
URL: https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/485#issuecomment-2675637076

   > Does it matter if behavior differs? If it does, then I'm fine keeping this 
as required so that it doesn't diverge. But if this is optional, it doesn't 
help prevent divergence.
   
   I don't think the statement is a binary here.  In practice it probably 
doesn't matter, but it still doesn't mean that we wouldn't necessarily want 
consistency here.  It becomes an implementation details, but in the absence of 
a common guide different implementations might choose slightly different 
representations, not for any good technical reason but simply because it is 
arbitrary (i.e. "Inf" vs "Infinity").  This is why I think an appendix on 
implementation notes, that indicate this is one possible way of translating 
data and is recommended but not required makes sense to me.  This is not part 
of the spec, but that doesn't mean that providing guidance is not beneficial.


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