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by pitched 1619 days ago
Where EMV uses tags more like classes than types, I’m not really sure it actually counts as “abstract” syntax notation any more?

Because all tags are these custom things, some don’t strictly parse out to unique type codes too. So a non-EMV parser will have a few tags that map to the same integer code and cause some fun bugs.

That project was when I really understood deep-down why JSON won in the end!