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MAP

MAP contains concatenation of STR(key)-value pairs. Keys must be non-empty, unique and length-first bytewise ascending ordered.

MAP [STR(KEY0) || ITEM0 || STR(KEY1) || ITEM1 || ... ] EOC

Hint: Encoding code for known format can be ordered itself to emit values in an already properly sorted way.

SET is emulated by using MAPs with NIL values. That gives only 1-byte overhead for each element, but reuses already existing code.

Example representations:

MAP[foo: LIST["bar"]]09 C3666F6F 08 C3626172 00 00
SET[sig, dh]09 C26468 01 C3736967 01 00