SIAP and encoding of POS input parameter

[Patrick Dowler]

On 2009-1-21 10:06:51 Tom McGlynn wrote:
> This kind of thing could be put in an IVOA note or might be worth
> codifying in its own RFC.  I don't think this belongs in the individual
> DAL services though.  Similar things, like what characters are valid in
> String's? Do we have any support for Unicode in parameters?  could also
> be addressed.  I can't recall if the VOTable standard dealt with this
> explicitly or inherited definitions from XML.

Because it defines the syntax of a language with literal values, the ADQL spec 
does explicitly specify how numbers can be expressed... so there is a 
precedent for individual specs to do this.

In general I agree that all those examples should work, including scientific 
notation. 

PS-I don't think the extra letter on the end that some languages permit 
(sometimes require) to tell the compiler the data type of a primitive (e.g. 
1000L for long as opposed to int) should be permitted/used.

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