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diff --git a/edn.html.markdown b/edn.html.markdown index b8dc4e88..14bb25b4 100644 --- a/edn.html.markdown +++ b/edn.html.markdown @@ -7,13 +7,12 @@ contributors: Extensible Data Notation or EDN for short is a format for serializing data. -The notation is used internally by Clojure to represent programs and -it is used commonly by Clojure and Clojurescript programs to transfer -data. Though there are implementations of EDN for many other -languages. +The notation is used internally by Clojure to represent programs and it also +used as a data transfer format like JSON. Though it is more commonly used in +Clojure land, there are implementations of EDN for many other languages. -The main benefit of EDN is that it is extensible, which we will see -how it is extended later on. +The main benefit of EDN over JSON and YAML is that it is extensible, which we +will see how it is extended later on. ```Clojure ; Comments start with a semicolon. @@ -37,8 +36,7 @@ false \g \r \a \c \e ; Keywords starts with a colon. They behave like enums. Kinda -; like symbols in ruby land. - +; like symbols in ruby. :eggs :cheese :olives @@ -74,7 +72,9 @@ false ; Sets are collections that contain unique elements. #{:a :b 88 "huat"} -;;; Tagged Elements +;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; +;;; Tagged Elements ;;; +;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; EDN can be extended by tagging elements with # symbols. |