Comment by chubot

OK yeah, the 3:bag is easy to see.

With netstrings, it's

    3:bag,

with a comma, which makes it a bit more readable over the wire.

The extra level of Racket quoting was confusing me -- #"" and \" -- it would be nicer if they just wrote exactly what's transmitted over the wire.

And still the page does seem like it's missing a reference. Both Rivest's page and this page seem a bit underdeveloped for a "canonical" format ...