RE: [Firebird-devel] Vulcan: Question about parsing large integers

[Claudio V. C. <cv...@us...>]

Tom Cole wrote:
> To restate, this should fail as an inexactly representable integer
> value:
>
>      1000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>
> But the following should succeed, because the inclusion of the
> decimal point implies that the user knows it's a floating point
> number with the associated potential precision and accuracy issues.
>
>      1000000000000000000000000000000000000000.0
>
>
> I think this will meet our needs as well.  I will modify my fix to
> only take effect when a decimal point is found.  If there is no other
> discussion, I will test and push a fix in a couple of days.  I'm not
> sure how important this issue is to the general Firebird consumer; I
> plan on pushing this change only to the Vulcan subtree, and leave it
> to others to decide if this is worthwhile for FB2 or not.

I don't see much interest so far, but I think people will agree that you
chose the path that satisfies everyone in the long term. Demanding a period
at the end is not too much.

C.