> On 2021-02-22, at 11:13, Martin Björklund <mbj+i...@4668.se> wrote:
>
> Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
>> Thanks Martin,
>>
>> so you are saying that
>>
>> int8 { range "1..10"; }
>>
>> is indeed different from
>>
>> uint8 { range "1..10"; }
>>
>> and
>>
>> int32 { range "1..10"; }
>
> Yes.
Oh. People often choose uint8 etc. with an intention to set a range.
I don’t think they know that they are setting themselves up for NBC if that
range needs to be extended later.
So I would have expected that there is a common base type these are all derived
from.
RFC 7950 does not use "base type" as an absolute term; it only can be used
relative to “derived type”.
I don’t know which of the built-in types are “absolute base types” in the sense
you would need it to define the rule.
Grüße, Carsten
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