Github user robertdale commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/682
This all goes back to typing numbers based on storage size is dumb. Most
modern, high-level languages have arbitrary precision on integer and decimal
values. Languages that have strongly typed numbers, e.g. Java, should have to
adapt accordingly, not the other way around. Gremlin should be a higher-order
language. Thus, the graphson types should be at lowest-level `g:integer`,
`g:double`, or preferably, like json/javascript with just `number`. Further
more, numbers in gremlin should seamlessly be able to be manipulated and
compared to other numbers even of different java types, i.e. storage size
agnostic, language agnostic. :cow2:
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