Re: A value for "nothing"

[Mark H Weaver]

John Cowan <address@hidden> 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