From 8f205ea0cacca3fbfe4600e324115ac831bb016b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Garnock-Jones Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:42:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Acknowledge influences --- preserves.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/preserves.md b/preserves.md index 9ab1f2a..c30344d 100644 --- a/preserves.md +++ b/preserves.md @@ -896,6 +896,14 @@ specified, neither the textual nor the compact binary encoding rules for `Value`s force canonical serializations. Two serializations of the same `Value` may yield different binary `Repr`s. +## Acknowledgements + +The use of low-order bits of each lead byte for the length of short +values is inspired by a similar feature of [CBOR](http://cbor.io/). + +The treatment of commas as whitespace in the text syntax is inspired +by the same feature of [EDN](https://github.com/edn-format/edn). + ## Appendix. Table of lead byte values 00 - False