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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: > > But that's just leaking the internal implementation details. > I thought that was the point of pack/unpack? From the top of the docs for pack: "Typically, each converted value looks like its machine-level representation" I understand the point being made that the internal format of the string buffer is an implementation detail, but I'd think a better default would be to pack that string buffer as asked rather than convert it to something that is guaranteed to not be a machine-level representation. It seems a warning when trying to pack/unpack a string with the UTF bit set (pointing to encode, etc) would make more sense than converting the machine level representation to an idealized representation. PeterThread Previous | Thread Next