From: "baumanj@..." <baumanj@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T13:33:43+09:00
Subject: Re: unpack signed short in network (big-endian) byte order

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> |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.

Oh? I don't think that's mentioned in the rdoc for pack/unpack. In any
case, do you have any thoughts about adding these other formats?