From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-16T09:05:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] bit-struct gem

Hi --

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

>
> Bit-struct is now a gem. It's for accessing binary data in strings.
>
> Thanks to several folks on this list, particularly Markus Fischer, for 
> suggesting features.
>
> Examples and docs at: http://bit-struct.rubyforge.org/

Cool. I have a lambda in my (slightly languishing) DVI-file parsing
library with the comment:

   # Most of this proc is by Joel VanderWerf.

above it -- a slightly mutated version of something from Bit-struct
:-) I can't remember why I didn't just use the Bit-struct version
directly, but there was something I needed to tweak. If I ever get
back to that project I'll try to integrate more gracefully or at least
mention the gem.


David

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