From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T13:55:51+09:00
Subject: Suggestion: String#pack

I have been working on some code recently where it would be very 
useful to do:

    "abcdef".pack(...)

Instead, I have to do:

    ["abcdef"].pack(...)

This is guaranteed to be at least a minor inefficiency because a 
temporary anonymous array needs to be created. Is there a good reason 
why String can't have a #pack method that Does The Right Thing?

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.05.06 at 00:53:14