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So the length of the submessage is part of its parent, and the top level message has no explicit length because it has no parent? It seems terrible for most pur

So the length of the submessage is part of its parent, and the top level message has no explicit length because it has no parent? It seems terrible for most purposes.

crabbone 3y ago
Precisely. This is also unique to Protobuf (at least, I don't know other formats, and I had to implement a handful, that do that).