Comment by felixgallo
11 years ago
As an example of the deceptive simplicity, could you please describe how many bytes are required to deserialize numbers represented in JSON? Note: answer is not 2,4, or 8.
11 years ago
As an example of the deceptive simplicity, could you please describe how many bytes are required to deserialize numbers represented in JSON? Note: answer is not 2,4, or 8.
The JSON spec has no opinion on that and that's a good thing. It is up to you, your language and your parser to decide how large the largest JSON number should be.
Would it be simpler to enforce a global 32 bit or 64 bit limit on those numbers in the spec? I don't think so. Why should the limitations of embedded microcontrollers exchanging data apply to those of astronomical systems and vice versa?