NAME

       SEMI - Golf documentation (messages)

DESCRIPTION

       SEMI  (SimplE  Message  Interface)  is  a  binary  format used to write (pack) and read (unpack) messages
       consisting of key/value pairs in the form of:

           <key>=<8 byte length of value><value>

       <key> can be comprised of any characters other than equal sign("=") or an exclamation  point  ("!"),  and
       any surrounding whitespaces are trimmed.

       Value  is  always  preceded  by a 8-byte length of value (as a binary number in big-endian 64bit format),
       followed by the value itself, followed by the new line ("\n") at the end which is not counted in  length.
       A special <key> is "comment", which is always ignored, and serves the purpose of general commenting.

       SEMI  implicitly  supports binary data without the need for any kind of encoding, and the number of bytes
       is specified ahead of a value, making parsing efficient.

SEE ALSO

        Messages

       get-message new-message read-message SEMI write-message See all documentation

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