[CF-metadata] Add new integer types to CF?

From: Chris Barker <chris.barker>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 15:39:13 -0700

lookslike a good idea.

one thought: maybe toolate now, but:

One byte numeric data should be stored using the byte
>
or unsigned byte data type. It is possible to treat the byte type as
> unsigned by using the NUG convention of indicating the unsigned range
> using the valid_min, valid_max, or valid_range attributes.


So is there an "unsigned byte" type or not? if so, why bother with the text
about valid-min, etc....?

In my experience, unsigned byte is far more common that signed byte anyway.

(is it too late to call them something like uint8 and int8 ?

-CHB

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