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authorFelix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>2014-11-14 03:31:48 +0800
committerFelix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>2014-11-17 08:49:47 +0800
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rlp: new package for streaming RLP decoder
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+/*
+Package rlp implements the RLP serialization format.
+
+The purpose of RLP (Recursive Linear Prefix) qis to encode arbitrarily
+nested arrays of binary data, and RLP is the main encoding method used
+to serialize objects in Ethereum. The only purpose of RLP is to encode
+structure; encoding specific atomic data types (eg. strings, ints,
+floats) is left up to higher-order protocols; in Ethereum integers
+must be represented in big endian binary form with no leading zeroes
+(thus making the integer value zero be equivalent to the empty byte
+array).
+
+RLP values are distinguished by a type tag. The type tag precedes the
+value in the input stream and defines the size and kind of the bytes
+that follow.
+*/
+package rlp