On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Francis Galiegue <[email protected]> wrote: > I was talking about what is allowed in map keys, not values
So was I. > if map > keys were able to be anything other than strings, Avro could not be > mapped to JSON. Yes, JavaScript is an example of a programming language whose standard map implementation doesn't provide support for non-string keys. JavaScript however is not an example of a programming language whose identifiers permit a only a limited set of characters, since (I believe) one can escape arbitrary characters in property accessors when using the dot syntax. Doug
