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On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:14:35PM -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > d) You react as if packed strings are manually created and designed > > for human consumption. All that programmer are going to do is > > > > $packed = pack 't', \%data; > > system 'foo', $packed; > > > > $data = unpack 't', shift; > > Ilya, if this is where you are leading then why not advocate including > Storable in the main tarball instead? Storable might be good for some things. FreezeThaw might be good for some things. Data::Dumper might be good for some things. But 't' unpack template is in some sense less powerful, in some sense more. It cannot (itself) handle duplicate entries and/or circular things (though one can easily extend it by appropriate ')'-extension subroutines). But it is much more embeddable since you can combine 't' with other pack TEMPLATE stuff. IlyaThread Previous | Thread Next