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If you have to run “eval” on it, it’s not an s-expression. If the “eval” is implied, what you are describing is serialization of data, not actual data.

You could do what you describe with JSON too – it’s just encoding and decoding. Would you therefore be able to claim that JSON is capable of transmitting, say, tabular data? Of course not.



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