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Re: Canonical form for signing S-expressions
On 14 Apr 1997, Derek Atkins wrote:
> The only problem with this is that you now have an ambiguous recursion
> problem. How do you know when:
> 30:(1:a,1:b,16:(2:cd,1:e,3:fgh),),
> means
> '((1:a,1:b,16:(2:cd,1:e,3:fgh),))
> or
> (a b (cd e fgh)
Oops! Thanks. (I was also missing the "," in "3:fgh,".)
As Ron Rivest has already pointed out, using different delimiters
can fix that.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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