Dean Landolt

Improvement escapement for flat types (strings and buffers)

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The escapement procedure for strings and buffers we're using today is pretty goofy, and it's particularly problematic that there are two distinct serializations depending on whether the value is top...

See the first line of @maxogden's comment here: https://github.com/dominictarr/level-sublevel/issues/16#issuecomment-22914314

So I've been using the require(""+"foo") trick to bypass static analysis -- but it blows up nodules even on platforms with a blocking require. I'd like to avoid require.ensure'ing everything...

i've got a bunch of promised-io stuff i wrote a while ago but never bothered getting it all together...here's a start