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Handling of `Number` types can be unexpected
Currently, numbers are inferred similar to type inference in Kotlin.
For instance:
DataFrame.readJsonStr("""[ { "a": 1 }, { "a": 1.0 } ]""")
results in a column: a: Number
. This can cause issues with statistics like std
, as they don't support Number
s as of now: https://github.com/Kotlin/dataframe/issues/558
It might be easier to work with if numbers would converge in the closest common ancestor in terms of information. For instance: Int + Double + Float => Float
, since Float
s can store all information a Double
and Int
holds.
This would need to be carefully considered, however, as it's inconsistent with Kotlin's type inference.