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Notes on embedded binary values

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Tony Garnock-Jones 2018-09-29 00:04:56 +01:00
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@ -1395,4 +1395,11 @@ tell whether it is an open-parenthesis or not! For this reason, I've
disallowed whitespace between a label `Value` and the open-parenthesis
of the fields. Is this reasonable??
Q. Should SOH-prefixed binary values embedded in a textual representation
be length-prefixed, too - byte strings, essentially? Also, why not
base64 embedded binary values? The length-prefixing might help with
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.
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