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No, ASN.1 has separate boolean, integer, and enumeration types, as well as separate "printable string" and "octet sequence" types.
by morelisp 6y ago
No, ASN.1 has separate boolean, integer, and enumeration types, as well as separate "printable string" and "octet sequence" types.
- wwright 6y agoYes, which makes it a schema
- morelisp 6y agoOK, then what term would you like me to use to mean "the thing protobuf uses to define messages, commonly called a schema, that lives outside the encoded data itself"? The point is that ASN.1 can do certain things without it which protobuf cannot.