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So, "canonical" here means "for a given tree of data this is one unambiguous binary representation for it," which is a useful property for crypto signatures. It

So, "canonical" here means "for a given tree of data this is one unambiguous binary representation for it," which is a useful property for crypto signatures. It does not mean "this is a blessed way to write sexp's", though folks can be forgiven for not realizing that since the docs here don't say much about the when's or why's of use.

chubot 3y ago
Yeah that's one property you want, but "over the network" leaves me wanting a bit more Namely interoperability between Lisps
- mclide 3y ago
  See Swank used in Slime https://github.com/slime/slime/blob/master/swank.lisp https://github.com/slime/slime/blob/master/swank.lisp