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diff --git a/rlp/doc.go b/rlp/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aab98ea43 --- /dev/null +++ b/rlp/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +/* +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 |