From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-06-02T08:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: What is BER compression? (was RCR: unpack/pack Bignum)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: What is BER compression? (was RCR: unpack/pack Bignum)


> Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In message "Re: What is BER compression? (was RCR: unpack/pack Bignum)"
> >    on 03/06/02, wbh <W.B.Hill@uea.ac.uk> writes:
> > 
> > |On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > |
> > |> Ask Perl people, it's there only for Perl pack compatibility.
> > |
> > |s/pack/back/
> > 
> > Did I have to say "compatibility with Perl pack function"?
> 
> No, it was just a pun on 'back compatibility'.

Ohh... I thought he was misunderstanding Matz.
Now I think he was just making a joke. If it is
for compatibility with Perl, that's back compatibility.

Eh, I'm going back to sleep.

Hal