Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?

[Jorge Chamorro <[e-mail]>]

On 10/07/2013, at 01:49, Jacob Davies wrote:
> 
> My take prior to this discussion was that the mild annoyance of not
> being able to send 9223372036854775807 as a number in JSON was the
> reasonable price you paid for having an interoperable number range in
> the format. It seemed like most people here disagreed with my
> impression, which is fair enough, and it sounded like Douglas
> Crockford's intent was not to restrict them in such a way, but I would
> be surprised if many people actually - intentionally at least! - use
> numbers from outside the Javascript range in JSON, given the problems
> it causes for Javascript.

Right, the implementations set the limits, and JavaScript implementations in particular have to watch out for interoperability problems in the presence of 64 bit ints.
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