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Re: [Cbor] [Json] Update Standard to support ECMA-262 BigInt

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 04 May 2021 19:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] [Json] Update Standard to support ECMA-262 BigInt
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On 2021-05-04, at 18:56, Pete Cordell <petejson@codalogic.com> wrote:
> 
> But your example did make me think, did you consider HEREDOC format in CDDL? e.g. something like:

For the .abnf/.abnfb control operators, we tried to make do with what we had in RFC 8610 (no changes in the syntax, just two new control operators — and a third, .det, which is needed to handle ABNF’s indentation intolerance).

A CDDL 2.0 might have a HEREDOC-style mechanism, if people find that useful.

Grüße, Carsten

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