paul cannon <pcan...@gmail.com> writes: > It has the same structure as a string map, but might not necessarily *be* a > string map. I would guess that this phrasing is used because it may be > possible to have multiple identical "keys" in this structure, which would > not make sense in a [string map]. (Although I don't think it's explicitly > stated, it seems safe to imply that [string map] is intended to be a plain > lookup table, not a set of arbitrary pairs.)
OK, so it is distinct. Thanks for the clarification. > As the doc says, each <value_j> is a [bytes], which means it's represented > on the wire as an [int] x followed by x bytes. Thank you for pointing out what I had succeeded in reading repeatedly without actually processing. ;) At the same time, that seems to gloss over the structure of the content---it's not all encoded as string values, or is it? Mike.
