Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> The version token needed only when we want break backward
> compatibility (change the meaning of existing opcodes).

This is true. For example, my first hunch was to make w_long()
emit variable-length data, (0-254: one byte integer, 255: four
bytes integer following the 255 prefix).

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