From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-05-06T17:54:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestion: String#pack

Hi,

In message "Suggestion: String#pack"
    on 03/05/06, Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> writes:

|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(...)

Pack templates A, a, Z, B, b, H, h, u, m, P and p takes string
argument, so that it might be useful.  But they are subset of pack
function.  Do we have to name different name for different function?
String#pack might not be intuitive name for string padding/converting
function.

							matz.