From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2005-05-31T23:57:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Useless hack of the saturday morning On May 31, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > I think the nice thing about packings is that they don't need to > reference the array variable... your code is no improvement to just > appending to the array directly, IMHO. In that case, how are gather/packing an improvement? They require more typing than just appending to an Array. I guess I just don't "get it". James Edward Gray II