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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sat, 20 February 2021 06:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] hildjj/cbor-map-entries: Explicit Map datatype for CBOR, in array format
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On 20. Feb 2021, at 04:54, Dale R. Worley <worley@ariadne.com> wrote:
> 
> Now I'm pretty sure that what is *intended* is that maps encoded as tag
> 279 plus major type 4 require the keys to be strings.  Though it's
> conceivable that it intends that keys in major type 5 be strings; that
> would fix the described problem as well.

I don’t think that’s what the current discussion is about.
(Actually, tag 275 was registered for just that.)

Grüße, Carsten

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