std.jgrandson

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On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 17:17:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 8/5/14, 8:23 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> "Andrea Fontana"  wrote in message
>> news:takluoqmlmmooxlovqya at forum.dlang.org...
>>
>>> If I'm right, json has just one numeric type. No difference 
>>> between
>>> integers / float and no limits.
>>>
>>> So probably the mapping is:
>>>
>>> float/double/real/int/long => number
>>
>> Maybe, but std.json has three numeric types.
>
> I searched around a bit and it seems different libraries have 
> different takes to this numeric matter. A simple reading of the 
> spec suggests that floating point data is the only numeric 
> type. However, many implementations choose to distinguish 
> between floating point and integrals.

There is certain benefit in using same primitive types for JSON 
as ones defined by BSON spec.