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Numeric values

piranna opened this issue · comments

commented

According to

ini/test/foo.js

Line 54 in 738eca5

b: { c: { e: '1', j: '2' } } },
seems numeric values are interpreted as strings. Shouldn't they be parsed as numbers?

commented

2 years and no answer :)

commented

3 years and no answer :)
if we make it to 10 everyone gets a cookie from the maintainers. /joking

I think the issue is to intelligently look at number strings.
i.e.

  • is '01' a string or the number 1
  • is '10' a string or the number 10 or the binary number 2

I am not sure what the spec is with .ini and typed values, probably non-existent.

commented

The ini format is typeless. Everything is a string, or an array of strings, or an object with string attributes. Changing this would constitute a pretty significant breaking change. Consumers of ini-formatted config need to handle typing of their values.