Re: [Cbor] Consolidated set of tags for map-like entities

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 15 March 2021 18:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Consolidated set of tags for map-like entities
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On 2021-03-15, at 19:50, Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@cursive.net> wrote:
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> Data Item being major type 5 should really only be used if the keys are homogeneously strings, in my opinion.

We are using a lot of integer labels with mt5, so why would we make that restriction?

Grüße, Carsten