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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:11:08 +0200
From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: General purpose library for name/value pairs.
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 06:04:15PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>=20
> > Returning to this thread after a short break. I removed all
> > {,u}int{8,16.32.64} types and implemented only 'number' type which is
> > uint64_t. Looks much nicer now.
>=20
> The numeric type should be floating point.  Or better yet, bignum.  Or
> more practically, uintmax_t.

The uintmax_t in theory can change in the future, which would make
sending numeric type from system with larger uintmax_t to system with
smaller uintmax_t problematic.

--=20
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