From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T10:02:43+09:00
Subject: Re: unpack signed short in network (big-endian) byte order

Hi,

In message "Re: unpack signed short in network (big-endian) byte order"
    on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:08:43 +0900, "baumanj@gmail.com" <baumanj@gmail.com> writes:
|
|Perl's pack options seem to be largely the same. It has the same holes
|that ruby does. One interesting wrinkle is that where ruby uses the
|underscore ("_") suffix to enforce native lengths, perl uses a bang
|("!"). I don't know why that's different.

Since Perl used to use underscore when I implemented it.  Besides Ruby
allows "!" as well.

							matz.