Re: Larger than 32bit signed?

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>
> The strength of XML-RPC is the interoperability. The spec has been
> stable for years now and I see no real chance that it will get
> changed now.
>

This is an unfortunate way to see this technology.

> Why doesn't using strings "scale"?

Because the app or user must have previous knowledge of this string or
datatype to be converted. This seems like one of the issues that
xml-rpc was trying to fix, I may be wrong in that notion.

>
> You can use double, of course, which gives you a continuous Integer
> range of +- 2**52.
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>
> Just how big are the numbers you want to send?

greater than or equal to 4,294,967,295. I would love to be able to use
64 bit numbers.


It sounds like the best bet here is to use a structure defining what
the data-type actually is but use strings. Thanks for the reply.


 
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