Peyton Turner

Clarify Timestamp documentation

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Some parts of the Timestamp documentation could be reworded for clarity, to reduce the amount of cross-referencing needed to fully understand the specified behavior. A pair of topics for consideration:...

Clarify status of repeated fields in sorted binary structs

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Bear with me, I'm probably almost out of questions about specification ambiguities. The specification describes that binary structs can be ordered. > When L is 1, the struct has at...

Clarify status of NOP Padding in Binary-encoded sorted structs

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Related to #107. From http://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/docs/binary.html#13-struct > When L is 1, the struct has at least one symbol/value pair, the length field exists, and the field name integers are sorted in...

Specify handling of repeated field names in system Structs

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This came up while reviewing a pull request on [serde_ion](https://github.com/PeytonT/serde_ion). **Background** Ion specifically allows for Struct values to contain duplicate field names. [[1](http://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/docs/spec.html#struct), [2](http://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/help.html#why-do-ion-structs-support-duplicate-field-names)] But throughout the specification, sections are...