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| author | Andre Polykanine A.K.A. Menelion Elensúlë <andre@oire.org> | 2017-09-08 22:19:58 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-09-08 22:19:58 +0300 |
| commit | 6e56aa136c4f409e77e63bf678a77922184301ab (patch) | |
| tree | ad675f051232af621c830ce815271d6fb0fb785e | |
| parent | 2a3fbe26b6d77fff04b64c56f939e8338b9f800c (diff) | |
| parent | 25eca3c52781c7be94b088fa6edaad8d7815aa6d (diff) | |
Merge pull request #2844 from jdjohnston/edn-change
[edn/en] Improve initial description of EDN
| -rw-r--r-- | edn.html.markdown | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/edn.html.markdown b/edn.html.markdown index 79107269..04346eb8 100644 --- a/edn.html.markdown +++ b/edn.html.markdown @@ -3,13 +3,16 @@ language: edn filename: learnedn.edn contributors: - ["Jason Yeo", "https://github.com/jsyeo"] + - ["Jonathan D Johnston", "https://github.com/jdjohnston"] --- Extensible Data Notation (EDN) is a format for serializing data. -The notation is used internally by Clojure to represent programs. It is also -used as a data transfer format like JSON. Though it is more commonly used in -Clojure, there are implementations of EDN for many other languages. +EDN is a subset of the syntax used by Clojure. Reading data defined by EDN is +safer than that defined by the full Clojure syntax, especially from untrusted +sources. EDN is restricted to data, no code. It is similar in intent to JSON. +Though it is more commonly used in Clojure, there are implementations of EDN +for many other languages. The main benefit of EDN over JSON and YAML is that it is extensible. We will see how it is extended later on. |