Re: Larger than 32bit signed?

On 9 Feb 2006 22:27:00 +0000, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >The fact that xml-rpc does not have a version specification makes any
> >additions impossible.
>
> I don't think the lack of protocol version information makes much
> difference in this case.  At best, it would just get you a better
> error message when you try to send a 64 bit number to someone who
> doesn't recognize any way to specify one.  You're going to have an
> interoperability issue either way.
>

Maybe I am overlooking something but the underlying API's would have a
chance to fall back to earlier versions and do some of the hacky
conversions described in this thread.


 
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