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Document LambdaBuffers packages (Prelude and Plutus)

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The requested files are docs/lb-prelude.md and docs/lb-plutus.md. Start by reviewing the Prelude and Plutus package definitions and their opaque, transparent, encoding, equality, and derivation behavior. Done means both package documents specify the listed mappings and semantics in a language-neutral form; no test or other entry point is named.

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documentation

When implementing runtimes for LB packages (Prelude, Plutus), we need to have a 'language neutral' specification of:

  1. Which opaques types are listed and what do they map to in different languages.
  2. How opaque types support a type class
    • Json encodings
    • PlutusData encodings
    • Equality
  3. How transparent types support a type class via derivation
    • Given a sum/record/prod type how does a Json/PlutusData encoding look like? How is equality performed?

Let's add necessary documentation for this.

I sense that documentation should be associated with an LB package. So it's basically a documentation for the LB package.

  • docs/lb-prelude.md
  • docs/lb-plutus.md
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