From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-10-11T02:34:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19287] Re: base64.rb is back!

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:19253] base64.rb is back!"
    on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:14:09 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:

|I thought we'd removed it because it was a trivial wrapper around pack/ 
|unpack?
|
|(I see the new "m0" qualifier, but I'm not sure that extra zero  
|justifies a whole new library module...)

It's newly added to support RFC 4648, which is slightly incompatible
with pack/unpack.

							matz.