BIGNUMs considered harmful?

[bumblefudge]

DAG-CBOR didn't historically allow tag2 (64byte+ integers, similar to varints), pushing huge ints into userspace (and requiring an IPLD schema to translate them to other IPLD codecs' bignum equivs). DASL doesn't necessarily need to repeat this punt to userspace-- it could suggest bignums, if it warns users of compat issues with UnixFS/IPLD/etc.

[vmx]

I would say yes, it's considered harmful. I think doing it in the userspace is exactly the way to go. Else you end up with feature creep. The next would be: why is there no datetime type? ATProto got that IMHO right with putting datetime in userspace as string.

[bumblefudge]

totally valid to +1 userspacing this but not convinced "what will people ask for next if we let them have this?" is a valid argument 😅