func emitLiteral()

in encode_other.go [25:42]

• 18 lines of code
• 3 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

func emitLiteral(dst, lit []byte) int {
	i, n := 0, uint(len(lit)-1)
	switch {
	case n < 60:
		dst[0] = uint8(n)<<2 | tagLiteral
		i = 1
	case n < 1<<8:
		dst[0] = 60<<2 | tagLiteral
		dst[1] = uint8(n)
		i = 2
	default:
		dst[0] = 61<<2 | tagLiteral
		dst[1] = uint8(n)
		dst[2] = uint8(n >> 8)
		i = 3
	}
	return i + copy(dst[i:], lit)
}