From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: A value for "nothing" Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:32:04 -0400 Message-ID: <87ftyzsdgr.fsf@netris.org> References: <21036238.c6yQEfjfIL@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740> <8736v0v2b8.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535405897 20270 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2018 21:38:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:38:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, hiphish@posteo.de To: John Cowan Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 23:38:12 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fuPDA-0005AM-9Y for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:38:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuPFG-0007N9-4T for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47042) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuPEa-0007Kh-Ue for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:39:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuP8k-0004OL-0C for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:33:41 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:47970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuP8j-0004OF-Sq for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mhw by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fuP8j-0006VI-4v; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:33:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: (John Cowan's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:00:26 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 64.112.178.59 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:14796 Archived-At: John Cowan writes: > However, in formats like JSON where map keys are always strings, > it can save a lot of space to represent them as symbols, since > they are often repeated from one object to the next. There is no such > limitation in MessagePack, although I bet strings are the most common > type of map keys. Agree that this is a point in favor of using symbols to represent MessagePack strings. Mark