Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 01:33:01PM +0000, Balázs Lengyel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In some cases I want a percentage without fractions. This could be defined
> using range, by specifying the numbers 0 | 1 | 2 ... 99 | 100 in the range's
> argument.
> 
>     typedef percent-short {
>       type percent { range 0 | 1 | 2 ... 99 | 100; }  // didn't type out all the 101 integer values :-)
>     }
>

I guess we need to settle on a small number of percentage types that
people find useful and then module authors hopefully find what they
need. I am not sure that listing 101 numbers is a good pattern to use
(although it does achieve what you want). For percentages that have no
fraction, you likely want to derive from a base type that is efficient
to encode for binary encodings such as CBOR.

/js

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