Numeric values

[piranna]

According to https://github.com/npm/ini/blob/738eca59d77d8cfdddf5c477c17a0d8f8fbfe0fd/test/foo.js#L54 seems numeric values are interpreted as strings. Shouldn't they be parsed as numbers?

[Legomegger]

2 years and no answer :)

[marvin-martian]

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.

[wraithgar]

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.