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Re: [Json] JSON and int64s - any change in current best practice since I-JSON

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 17 January 2024 16:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] JSON and int64s - any change in current best practice since I-JSON
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On 2024-01-17, at 17:47, Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@cursive.net> wrote:
> 
> Regardless, this would be a hard fork of JSON, with a new name -- I just started a git repo called "ESON", for instance.  Like YAML, one of the goals might be that all well-formed JSON is well-formed ESON, and would produce the same thing that you expected from your local equivalent of JSON.parse.

Understand now.
I’m wondering why CBOR EDN couldn’t fit the bill...

> I'm not sure why other platforms couldn't parse this:
> 
> ```eson
> [
>  // Always generates a bigint
>  1n,
> ]
> ```
> 
> into a single element array containing their local bigint type?

What *is* a “local bigint type” in Rust?  Ruby?  Erlang?

Grüße, Carsten

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