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Re: [Cbor] Consolidated set of tags for containers

Kio Smallwood <kio@mothers-arms.co.uk> Tue, 06 April 2021 17:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Consolidated set of tags for containers
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I'm quite happy with this. Especially the use of abstract data types. 

I would like to add that Sets already have a tag of 258

Would it be worth considering how to handle multiple tags that fulfil the same role e.g. tag 258 and 144?

Cheers. 
Kio



On 19 March 2021 00:27:53 GMT, Emile Cormier <emile.cormier.jr@gmail.com> wrote:
>I branched my consolidated map tags proposal to include tags for
>list-like
>containers. This now lives on the "with-lists" branch on my GitHub
>repo.
>With the addition of list-like containers, the proposal now contains
>tags
>for representing containers like lists, sets and bags.
>
>https://github.com/ecorm/cbor-map-like/blob/with-lists/README.md
>
>Summary of changes:
>
>* Added "Category" column for either "Dictionary" or "Collection"
>
>* Added dictionaries with arbitrary keys and uniform values to make
>decoding the traits less insane. This increases the total number of
>tags
>from 20 to 24.
>
>* Removed programming languages section in favor of abstract data types
>that model each tag. Much less maintenance this way.
>
>I await your comments, critiques, and questions.

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