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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 14:42 UTC

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