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Re: [Cbor] hildjj/cbor-map-entries: Explicit Map datatype for CBOR, in array format

Kio Smallwood <kio@mothers-arms.co.uk> Thu, 18 February 2021 16:16 UTC

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From: Kio Smallwood <kio@mothers-arms.co.uk>
To: Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@cursive.net>
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Subject: Re: [Cbor] hildjj/cbor-map-entries: Explicit Map datatype for CBOR, in array format
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Thanks Joe! 

I really appreciate the additional input since I wasn't aware of other
languages with a similar datatype. 

I've accepted your PR and updated my README and repo commentary to
reflect the TBD status of the tag. 

Cheers, 

Kio 

On 2021-02-18 15:19, Joe Hildebrand wrote:

> PR's sent for both your repo and mine.
> 
> -- 
> Joe Hildebrand
> 
> On Feb 18, 2021, at 8:00 AM, Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@cursive.net> wrote:
> 
> Kio, I'm happy to defer to your document, since you published first.  Sorry I didn't know about it.  If you are amenable, I'll replace my doc with a pointer to yours, and send you a PR with some suggestions for JS examples.
> 
> -- 
> Joe Hildebrand
> 
> On Feb 18, 2021, at 7:42 AM, Kio Smallwood <kio@mothers-arms.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I'll modify it to remove the claim until it moves further.
> 
> I definitely want to avoid confusion!
> 
> Kio
> 
> On 18 February 2021 14:15:39 GMT, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-02-18, at 14:57, Kio Smallwood <kio@mothers-arms.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dale,
> 
> I have made a similar proposal here: https://github.com/Sekenre/cbor-ordered-map-spec/blob/master/CBOR_Ordered_Map.md
> 
> ... and here we see the danger of just "claiming" a number...
> 
> (272 is Non-UTF-8 CESU-8 string).
> 
> I've tried to explain the rationale that it is adding a straightforward option for serializing a native data-type in Python 3 and other languages that support order-preserving key-value maps.
> 
> Yes.  And I agree with Dale that we should look a bit closer, but that is not a reason not to allocate a tag.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
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