Find a better solution for `arrayPacked` flag

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
backend-api-design

Research direction

Start by tracing the existing uses of the arrayPacked flag through the TypeScript ABI encoding and decoding paths. Determine how array items are padded to 32 bytes without encoding the array length, then compare the current flag-based behavior with a possible replacement. Done means the behavior is preserved without requiring the extra flag and the relevant encoding and decoding cases remain consistent.

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Description

enhancement help wanted

We need a way to pad array items to 32 bytes, but not encode the length of the array. Right now we do that using the arrayPacked flag, but there might be a better solution for this that does not require an extra flag.

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