[Cbor] On arrays
"Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 22 January 2020 02:31 UTC
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On 21 Jan 2020, at 18:25, Laurence Lundblade wrote: > So it appears to me that no where does it say “arrays are ordered” > in 7049 or CBORbis. This seems like an omission that should be fixed. > They are ordered aren’t they? COSE would break if they weren’t. The definition of array in the document is: a sequence of zero or more data items Isn't "sequence" sufficient? Is there really such a thing as an unordered sequence? --Paul Hoffman
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