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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 17 January 2024 16:41 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 17:28, Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@cursive.net> wrote:
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> The approach that seems right to me is to make it explicit; bigint's get suffixed with 'n', and there is not automatic promotion to break existing code.

This creates a fork of JSON that is only useful with JavaScript?

(To use it with other platforms, you’d need to do exactly the “automatic promotions to break existing code”.)

Grüße, Carsten