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 TODO:
 
+ - consider a lead byte value used to wrap an encoded `Value` in a
+   size-counted wrapper? That way parsers can quickly skip nested
+   structure they're not interested in...
+
  - https://github.com/uwiger/sext
 
  - http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/expressions.html#term-comparisons;