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I've actually been employing Emoji Separated Values (ESV), often , here and there when doing some of this kind of work. Granted, it's not standard, but it's been really useful when I've needed it.

*edit Apparently emojis don't fly here, but it was an index finger pointing right.

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The benefit of this is that you can use different emojis to denote content type.

e.g. if it's a frowny face you know it's an invoice.

Funnily enough, I published a Python library two days ago that uses emojis to indicate where certain non-msgpackable builtin types have been forced into msgpackable objects: https://github.com/umarbutler/persist-cache/blob/main/src/pe...

is used for tuples, for sets, for frozen sets, for pickles, for bytes and for bytearrays.

I thought it was pretty ingenious but clearly I’m not the only one to think of it.

My delimiter over several projects over the years has been:

Only a matter of time before something breaks catastrophically but it hasn't happened yet.

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