Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] consider making the varint encoding unique (#2299)

[Marten Seemann <[e-mail]>]

> Losing the flexibility afforded by allowing fixed-size varints is one way to fix the clumsy language. The other way is to fix the clumsy language.

It's not only the language that's clumsy. The fact that we have to make this distinction at all is clumsy.
I see little value in having flexibility where it's not needed, especially if it adds weird corner cases elsewhere. I'm aware that reserving a longer value and filling it in later is a lazy way to implement the varint encoding, but I didn't find it particularly hard to write my code in a way that allows me to always use the optimal encoding.

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