Re: R: [phpxmlrpc-devel] is this list working?

[Ryan H. <rh...@is...>]

lukasz mach wrote:

> Gaetano Giunta wrote:
>
>> A very large amount of data indeed, but it is the only way to go!
>
> and problem is, how to code VERY BIG float to non-scientific format. 
> simply sprintf(%f,$number) seems to be not working properly.
>
> printf("%f",1.3e200) produces 
> 1299999999999997700000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.00000000 
>
> which is near 1.3e78.
>
> 1.3e200 should by inside double range.
>
> so maybe we should consider allow to use scientific format?

 From an interoperability standpoint, this seems wrong.  I would suggest 
handling scientific notation at the application layer instead of the RPC 
layer.  Use a string and do validation within your app.

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Ryan Hoegg
Contributor, Apache XML-RPC project