[PATCH docs] Clarify the wire format array specification

Micah Nordland mpnordland at gmail.com
Fri Sep 27 15:11:47 PDT 2013


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On 09/27/2013 05:02 PM, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> I think it is confusing to call this an "array", rather than
> perhaps a "block" or something.
> 
> When I read the documentation I thought the array consisted of N
> pieces of data in wire format, not N bytes.

That was my initial impression as well, perhaps instead of changing
the name, the spec should be changed to the length being the number of
items and contents of the array required to be one of the protocol's
defined data types.

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