From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-07-16T10:45:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] bit-struct gem

David A. Black wrote:
> 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.

Thanks! Drop me an email if the tweak looks like something that should 
go in the library.

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