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Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 10 July 2013 02:39 UTC

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Peter F. Patel-Schneider scripsit:

> JSON numbers are unlike the numeric type system of any programming
> language that I had been familiar with, even LISP.  

Basic and Perl are both flonum-only, at least unless you set appropriate
options.

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