I'm reading RFC 3339 in preparation to defend my position and I just read the most incredible sentence. I've copied it below:https://twitter.com/myrrlyn/status/1215034347146727424 …
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but my abstract position is that nobody blinks at the fact that parsing a 754 literal correctly requires a detailed format and behavior specification, and 754 literals don't need to be wrapped as opaque text for a config lang. we can lift other complex literals to that level also
This ignores the fact that IEEE754 specifies exact layout in memory, and how to represent a float is relatively uncontroversial across *all* languages, which is not true of date/time. Also I don't think that standard specifies how literals are expressed, that comes from math
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it does ignore this, because the in-memory layout of a datetime is less interesting than the memory layout of a number, when there is not a hardware implementation of datetime arithmetic. primitives don't have to be in silicon, they just have to be non-aggregate in the language
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