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Re: [Cbor] Implementing float->int numeric reduction

Wolf McNally <wolf@wolfmcnally.com> Wed, 16 August 2023 06:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Implementing float->int numeric reduction
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Anders,

> On Aug 15, 2023, at 8:38 PM, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On the encoding level I don't find it logical or useful handling a probably rather small set of floating point data differently than the rest.

Am I correct that JCS, of which you are the first author, re-encodes “0.0” as “0”? By your own statement to do so is neither “logical” nor “useful”. So why did you bother? Why did you not just “let floats be floats”?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8785#name-serialization-of-numbers

~ Wolf

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