Re: ASN.1 and self-reference

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ASN.1 and self-reference Lassi Kortela (08 Jul 2020 11:37 UTC)

Re: ASN.1 and self-reference John Cowan (08 Jul 2020 13:46 UTC)

Re: ASN.1 and self-reference Lassi Kortela (08 Jul 2020 13:51 UTC)

Re: ASN.1 and self-reference John Cowan (08 Jul 2020 14:25 UTC)

Re: ASN.1 and self-reference Alaric Snell-Pym (08 Jul 2020 19:07 UTC)

Re: ASN.1 and self-reference Alaric Snell-Pym 08 Jul 2020 19:06 UTC

On 08/07/2020 14:46, John Cowan wrote:
> No, and I don't know of any other representation that has them except CL
> and R7RS S-expressions.

I think YAML has them - it has anchors and references although the
examples of them I find are purely for sharing common subexpressions, so
the language spec may disallow loops or something:

https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/yaml-anchors/

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