BigInt Shipping in Firefox

Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by tzs on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:58AM (#19992897)

How about serializing to an array ["bigint", "170141183460469231731687303715884105727"]? It takes more space, but is easy to recognize, and easy to generalize to other types.

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Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by jfk13 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:15PM (#19993692)

Presumably that could be confusing if you ever happen to have an actual array whose first element is the string "bigint".

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Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by hombre_fatal on Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:43PM (#19994010)

Well, no matter what you do, surely you plan on documenting your API to such a bare bones level that your user isn't racking their brain whether a key is a number or an array of data.

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Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by repsilat on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:53PM (#19995802)

Nah, you just have to also encode all arrays like

    ["array", [...]]

;-)

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