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@ -1384,7 +1384,10 @@ what? Some domain-specific base URI?
Q. Literal small integers: are they pulling their weight? They're not
absolutely necessary. They mess up the connection between
value-ordering and repr-ordering!
value-type-ordering and repr-tag-ordering! (The connection between
*value* ordering and *repr* ordering is already irretrievably messed
up: length prefixes blow lexicographic ordering away, sign bits are
the wrong way around, floats are sign-magnitude, etc etc.)
Q. Should we go for trying to make the data ordering line up with the
encoding ordering? We'd have to only use streaming forms, and avoid
@ -1416,4 +1419,10 @@ should it be changed to case-sensitive?
TODO: Examples of the ordering. `"bzz" < "c" < "caa"`; `#true < 3 < "3" < |3|`
TODO: Probably should add a canonicalized subset. Consider adding
explicit "I promise this is canonical" marker, like a BOM, which
identifies a binary value as (first) binary and (second, optionally)
as canonical. UTF-8 disallows byte `0xFF` from appearing anywhere in a
text; this might be a good candidate for a marker sequence.
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