E-notation of numbers

[walter-weinmann]

If the sign after the e/E is '+' or missing, the number of the following digits seems to restricted to 3:

5e+12            ok
5e+123           ok
5e+1234          not ok
5e+12345         not ok
5e123            ok
5e1234           not ok
5e12345          not ok

[talentdeficit]

i made a design decision to always decode numbers in 'exponent' form to floats but this means you can't represent anything larger than ~1.78e308

do you actually see these values in use? i surveyed common json libraries and most made the same design decision i did, but if this is an actual real world problem i can look at adding support for integer 'exponent' decoding in v3.0

[walter-weinmann]

Many thanks for the explanation. This problem is not a real world problem. I have only generated test data based on the ECMA standard. I am quite happy if you want to close this issue (perhaps a note in the documentation ?).

[talentdeficit]

i should definitely improve the error message. badarg is pretty useless