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Re: [PATCH 5.005_62] First round of unpack

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Greg McCarroll
Date:
October 27, 1999 03:42
Subject:
Re: [PATCH 5.005_62] First round of unpack
Message ID:
3.0.1.32.19991027114109.01b11188@pop3.demon.co.uk
At 01:05 27/10/99 -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:37:44 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>>Perhaps Ilya's intending to implement Perl 6 using Perl 5's pack()? :-)
>
>Once we've passed the impending complexity horizon, pack() will
>become implementable only in pack(), perl will accumulate enough
>bits to collapse onto itself, and even Chip will need forever to

i look forward to the first CGI questions on comp.lang.pack.misc

Greg

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