From: dejaspam@... (Bill Atkins)
Date: 2004-06-14T12:43:38+09:00
Subject: [RCR]: Replace pack and unpack with OO versions

Rather than having code like this:

flags, ignore, length, name = data.unpack "nnna*"

let's try this:

u = Unpacker.new data
flags, ignore, length, name = u.word, u.word, u.word, u.string

I think this looks a lot neater and is much more maintainable.  A
similar thing could be done with pack.

p = Packer.new
p.word 0x01
p.word 0x00
p.word 0x08
p.string "ERERER"

p.to_s => packed version

Any ideas on this before I draft it up into a real RCR?

Bill Atkins