MAP contains concatenation of [encoding/String](key)⇔value pairs. MAP [STR(KEY0) || ITEM0 || STR(KEY1) || ITEM1 || ...] EOC Keys *must* be non-empty, unique and length-first bytewise ascending ordered. 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 {{STR "bar"}}}} | 09 C3666F6F 08 C3626172 00 00 SET {sig dh} | 09 C26468 01 C3736967 01 00