Milo, Agreed on how the format must be presented on the website, I am keeping your post bookmarked as a TODO list as I work on formalizing the spec on the...
... I think it is patronizing to suggest that something as simple as supporting Big Integer and -Decimal would be beyond skills of competent parser writers --...
... The best documentation I know of is in the source for the pickle and pickletools modules. You can find them, e.g. like this: $ python Python 2.6.4...
... Not beyond the skills - beyond the patience and needs. i host 2 (C and C++) JSON libraries and i have absolutely no need for big numbers, so i would never...
this subject in this mail list generated more email in one week that the list had in 6 months. I therefore stepped back, too much to follow. Anyone willing to...
Hey Dennis, Here is where we are: I have been working on a Universal Binary JSON specification and asked the group for feedback on it. You can check the spec...
... Well then, why not add just one more type code for "string-encoded number"? That way, ordinary JSON can be round-tripped with 100% reliability. Well, if...
I have felt for a LOOOOOONG time, that representing numbers, including drive sizes, integers, any others, could have been future proofed and more simple using...
Hmm! John, I like that idea... it is simple, singular and easy to represent. What would you think of something like this: marker: N length: required example: ...
Since this IS about JAVAscript (not really java, buuuuuuut), use the Java specification for unlimited length integers. Propose it to the javascript/emca ...
... I like the idea of "encoded generic number". But one of the purposes of a binary encoding is space savings, so I don't think unicode fits into that...
... H for Huge might be good. We want people to encode ordinary numbers using the byte/int/double formats. ... Yes. Of course, in this context UTF-8 and...
Patrick, The reasons I specified UTF-8 were (1) to be consistent with the rest of the spec (e.g. you don't have to change your thinking just because you are...
... I was about to suggest this, it is a possible work around. ... I agree that compatibility with JSON, both at logical data model and ideally at APIs would...
... I can not disagree more on "understand in under 10 mins" aspect. Why should that matter? Users will NOT (need to) read the spec; they will use whatever API...
... The comments in here seem to be the ticket. Thanks. -- You escaped them by the will-death John Cowan and the Way of the Black Wheel....
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Paul C. Bryan
paul.bryan@...
Sep 26, 2011 4:37 pm
... 1. I presume the only reason for making this a signed number is to just be consistent with the processing binary representations of numbers? 2. I presume...
Paul, Thank you for the feedback, my comments are inlined below. ... Yes exactly. Elements can have a byte length of 0 or more, negative numbers would cause...
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Paul C. Bryan
paul.bryan@...
Sep 26, 2011 6:02 pm
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 17:11 +0000, rkalla123 wrote: Ah, sorry, wasn't aware there was an updated spec yet. Just read it. Most of my questions were resolved in...
... Glad to hear that. I've been working hard on clarifying a lot of the holes that were in the original doc as I port them to the site and questions like...
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Sep 26, 2011 6:29 pm
... Also presumably it's perfectly acceptable to encode numbers <= 64 bits in an "H" value. Paul...
... Yes exactly right. You could encode every number that way and it would amount to parsing strings on the processing side, effectively performing on par with...
Hello, JSON Groups Members! As I already mentioned, I recently finished analysing some large number of JSON libraries linked from json.org about the data...
I like this. It meets Riyad's goal of keeping the spec simple, while compact in most cases, and, at the same time, meeting the need for lossless round trip...
Absolutely! I couldn't thank all of you enough for the help refining the spec and help with addressing shortcomings. Draft 5 is currently up at the new home...
I think all of this binary JSON work is great. But can you guys move it to another group. The fact is that binary JSON is not JSON. I joined this group...
... I realize there's been a big burst of traffic around this topic, and I've been one of the significant contributors (in volume, at least). But really, the...
