From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-01-20T07:05:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9571] Re: Fast, loose, and out of control

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>     on 01/01/15, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@cam.org> 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.

I really wonder how you are going to implement that. May you give some
details on how you intend to do it?

Plus, may anyone give me an example of where pack/unpack "P" is used? I
can't see how it can fit in Ruby (or Perl, for that matter)

matju