varint
daviddias opened this issue · 2 comments
@jbenet could you confirm that you mean by <varint-base-encoding-code>? A varint merged with the code itself? (high significant bit means that it requires more than one byte) How does that work for cases where the code is a specific char? @whyrusleeping is of the opinion that varint does not make sense in this case (see https://github.com/multiformats/go-multibase/blob/master/multibase.go)
Yeah I think that was copy pasta error.
There is a problem though: what do you do to make the table infinitely
extensible? I guess the bigger constraint is the code has to be in the
right alphabet, which will be hard to satisfy both.
Given a table, matching could involve single char or multiple chars. We
just have to make sure we can have sequences that never overlap completely
(I.e. no code should be a prefix of another). We would have to be really
good at picking codes and not lock ourselves out of longer codes
accidentally...
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