> TL;DR - I want to specify the max values of integers and floats in the
> puppet language for a number of reasons. Skip the background part
> to get to "Questions and Proposal" if you are already familiar with
> serialization formats, and issues regarding numeric representation.
TL;DR: from a Pup
> 2) warn people about cases where where using code in other languages
could lead to problems.
Unless we want to keep track of every language and how the multiple
libraries that exist handle serialisation and deserialisation that's pretty
much impossible. "Oh but this breaks in Scala but works
> Most serialization formats can simply not deal with > 64 bit values as
> regular numbers. They may do horrible things like truncation, or use
> the max/min value if a value is too big, or for floating point
> drastically lose precision.
Eh. It's not that the serialization formats can't deal w
Indeed. Ideally, it would "just work" and do the automatic conversion
internally to the language.
Unfortunately, this may take a lot of tinkering back and forth under the
covers. But, I'd certainly love to never worry about typing again.
Now, about those booleans.
Trevor
On Mon, Sep 1, 201
On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:54 AM, Henrik Lindberg
wrote:
> Hi,
> Recently I have been looking into serialization of various kinds, and the
> issue of how we represent and serialize/deserialize numbers have come up.
>
> TL;DR - I want to specify the max values of integers and floats in the puppet
>
TL;DR; BigInteger/BigDecimal is the "right" thing to do, otherwise cap at
the client/server floor.
I have a few thoughts here:
1) I don't like losing precision in any case so a cap makes sense (maybe)
2) If you do cap, would you not want to cap to the lowest of the client or
server? I.e. if the
Hi,
Recently I have been looking into serialization of various kinds, and
the issue of how we represent and serialize/deserialize numbers have
come up.
TL;DR - I want to specify the max values of integers and floats in the
puppet language for a number of reasons. Skip the background part
to g
