Re: [protobuf] What are well-known types?

2016-03-04 Thread 'Feng Xiao' via Protocol Buffers
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Josh Humphries wrote: > What do you think about creating issues for them on the protobuf github > project and then include links to the design docs? > These design docs were created for Google internal consumption only. Without some proper

Re: [protobuf] What are well-known types?

2016-03-03 Thread Josh Humphries
What do you think about creating issues for them on the protobuf github project and then include links to the design docs? Also, the addition of boxed types seems to be back-pedaling a bit on the decision to make zero and absent indistinguishable for primitive types. This seems to be a concession

Re: [protobuf] What are well-known types?

2016-02-23 Thread 'Feng Xiao' via Protocol Buffers
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Zellyn wrote: > There are increasing numbers of references to "well-known" types in > protos. For instance, I see changes in the Go implementation to support > them. > There were passing references in release notes in this group. > > However,