Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status:
Open
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: Specification
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Labels:None
Description
I propose using one of the reserved bytes (such as 0xc1 for example), to support the concept of a "Pair" type. The Pair would be a special case of a 2-element array.
There are a number of cases where a "Pair" type is useful, especially when you want to try and save as many bytes as possible in the serialialised format.
I could not find a Wiki page or anything describing proposed uses for these reserved bytes, so I thought an issue here was an appropriate place to put it. Feel free to move this elsewhere if appropriate 
While possibly semantically useful addition, it is no more space efficient than using `fix array` type (1001XXXX) because the length (up to 15) is encoded in the type sentinel.