Imported from previous forum
[ original email was from Jim Northey - jnorthey@jandj.com ]
Wanted to recommend renaming some of the datatypes in order to integrate with the TD spec more closely. Also would like to propose some data types be considered for deprecation in the next version of FAST (post 1.1 at the soonest):
Unsigned Integer
Signed Integer
Decimal (aka Composite Scaled Number)
ASCII Character String
Bit Vector
Byte Vector
Additional FAST 1.0 Data types likely to be deprecated in a future release
Unsigned Integer without Null
Signed Integer without Null
Scaled Number