From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-01-15T09:43:48+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:9317] Re: Fast, loose, and out of control Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:9303] Re: Fast, loose, and out of control" on 01/01/15, Mathieu Bouchard writes: |This is all relative. Here is a procedure that requires a String as a |parameter; it does not work on big-endian machines; it depends on the |implementation of String; it depends on the memory layout of String. Hmm, I'm considering to restrict "P", which is pretty nasty. "P" will only retrieve the pointer which previously packed by "P". I should have done long before. matz.