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Add implementer advice for decnumber (and basenumber) float syntax #30

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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion draft-ietf-cbor-edn-literals.md
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Expand Up @@ -791,7 +791,10 @@ The following additional items should help in the interpretation:
least one of the optional parts starting with "." and "e" are
present, in which case it stands for a floating point value in the
usual decimal notation. Note that the grammar now allows `3.` for
`3.0` and `.3` for `0.3` (also for hexadecimal floating point below).
`3.0` and `.3` for `0.3` (also for hexadecimal floating point
below); implementers are advised that some platform numeric parsers
accept only a subset of the floating point syntax in this document
and may require some preprocessing to use here.
* `basenumber` stands for an integer in the usual base 16/hexadecimal
("0x"), base 8/octal ("0o"), or base 2/binary ("0b") notation, unless the
optional part containing a "p" is present, in which case it stands
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