Assuming this is the EDN spec thing: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
Then, no, this won't solve anything related to this discussion. For anyone curious on the types of issues related to this I highly recommend reading through that long Python ticket I linked to. Some of the more nutty details that are important are libc parsing algorithms and FPU rounding modes. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: >> "I have stored fixed precision numbers in a database". You haven't, >> unfortunately, because you can't. Javascript only has one kind of >> number, 64-bit floating point. >> >> >> If you want fixed precision, you'll need to store your numbers in >> strings and manipulate them that way too. A quick google in the past >> has shown a few "bignum" libraries for Javascript. >> >> B. >> > > At a meetup someone suggested we should go to edn [1] . Could be > interesting for such purposes. (that and also date formats). > > Not sure how much we could support both in couchdb but edn parsers > starts to appear in a lot of languages around: > > - py: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/edn_format > - js: https://github.com/gnarmis/edn-js > - erl: https://github.com/seancribbs/edn-erlang (incomplete) > > - benoît > > > [1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn
