Gurusamy Sarathy writes: > Thanks for throwing up the idea, but are you single-handedly trying to > start a back-to-the-assembler-years movement among the Perl rank and > file? I'm missing the entire point of all this. Perhaps some examples > of real-world use will help, but I honestly doubt it. :-) Perhaps Ilya's intending to implement Perl 6 using Perl 5's pack()? :-) -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack CohenThread Previous | Thread Next