On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 5:09 AM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:

With all due respect, since you are the editor of the MicroXML
specification, those two formats are good illustrations of where we
disagree. To a diligent implementor, both are far from simple. To take
.ini for example, some concerns off the top of my head:

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My answers are at <https://bitbucket.org/cowan/r7rs-wg1-infra/src/default/DataFormatsCowan.md> (search locally for "INI Files").  It so happens I wrote this down before you sent this email.

[rest snipped because we are no longer arguing over text vs. binary, having agreed to do both]



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