Isn't that the point of the 'hashtags' in edn? If a #png arrives then your program is going to throw an exception unless you've registered a handler that report

Isn't that the point of the 'hashtags' in edn? If a #png arrives then your program is going to throw an exception unless you've registered a handler that reports success in decoding it? In effect it doesn't matter than the encoding is arbitrary edn (e.g. a 150KB png could be a solitary bigint literal) because the tags prevent false-positive decodes and keep things "strongly typed".