From e80421b40c478abcbec51217d86952d03fefa473 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Garnock-Jones Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:07:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] SOH-prefixed embedded format considered harmful --- preserve.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/preserve.md b/preserve.md index f05d64e..8a36058 100644 --- a/preserve.md +++ b/preserve.md @@ -1402,4 +1402,10 @@ being able to avoid having to care whether the embedded value is well- formed or not; on the other hand, it means streaming-format embeddings aren't possible. +TODO. The SOH-prefixed embedded binary idea is probably incoherent. +Textual form is *text*, not binary, and since it's code-points, we +cannot rely on having access to a hypothetical underlying bytestream. +Remove it, and consider generalizing `#hexvalue{}` to include +`#base64value{}` or similar. + ## Notes