From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-07-31T05:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: binary encode 7 ([7].pack("C")) as "\007" instead of "\a"


On Jul 30, 2010, at 10:38 , Woody Peterson wrote:

>> The basic problem is that ruby encodes the integer 7 as "\a", while
>> erlang only decodes it as "\007"
> 
> Correction, this is actually a non-issue.

Well, I think it was a non-issue regardless of what erlang is doing:

>> "\a" == "\007"
=> true
>> "\007"[0]
=> 7
>> "\a"[0]
=> 7

I'd guess you should be writing tests to verify instead of eyeballing it.