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Extensible Data Notation or EDN for short is a format for serializing data. Extensible Data Notation or EDN for short is a format for serializing data.
The notation is used internally by Clojure to represent programs and The notation is used internally by Clojure to represent programs and it also
it is used commonly by Clojure and Clojurescript programs to transfer used as a data transfer format like JSON. Though it is more commonly used in
data. Though there are implementations of EDN for many other Clojure land, there are implementations of EDN for many other languages.
languages.
The main benefit of EDN is that it is extensible, which we will see The main benefit of EDN over JSON and YAML is that it is extensible, which we
how it is extended later on. will see how it is extended later on.
```Clojure ```Clojure
; Comments start with a semicolon. ; Comments start with a semicolon.
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\g \r \a \c \e \g \r \a \c \e
; Keywords starts with a colon. They behave like enums. Kinda ; Keywords starts with a colon. They behave like enums. Kinda
; like symbols in ruby land. ; like symbols in ruby.
:eggs :eggs
:cheese :cheese
:olives :olives
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; Sets are collections that contain unique elements. ; Sets are collections that contain unique elements.
#{:a :b 88 "huat"} #{:a :b 88 "huat"}
;;; Tagged Elements ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;; Tagged Elements ;;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; EDN can be extended by tagging elements with # symbols. ; EDN can be extended by tagging elements with # symbols.