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Hi @fink , Thank you for your time and for your considerably knowledgeable input. I'm fairly convinced that verbosity is more beneficial most of the time. However, too much verbosity...

> the goal is to abbreviate without obfuscation. That's one way to put it :) On the other hand, readability is the higher concern, so missing possible abbreviations isn't a...

Hi @frink , FYI: the FIOBJ data types were re-written from the ground up. Currently, the 0.8.0 branch bypasses the new FIOBJ types, but the old implementation should be totally...

## My Vision for 0.8.0 > I don't quite understand your vision there yet. But I expect that I just need to spend a little bit more time in the...

> I've never heard anyone suggest recursion invited abuse. What abuse are you referencing? Incorrect use will result in stack explosion. i.e., freeing a deeply nested data structure will recursively...

BTW, how's the progress on the renaming? > How bad does Facil blow up if nesting is too deep? Depends. There are generally two approaches: 1. Quiet failure (the operation...

> I've got a holiday coming up that will render me offline until Tuesday. Got about an hour and a half left on the whole thing... Happy holiday. Have fun....

@fink , thank you for your help and input. Since no PR arrived, I'm assuming you got bogged down with actual work (the one that puts food on the table)...?...

@frink , You're probably right. Finding a good implementation with an MIT license and integrating it is would probably be the most effective approach - especially if we could use...

Thanks for taking the time to find a solution. Lets put this one on low priority, there's a bunch of stuff that uses `strtod` and not all systems have issues...