Re: How on earth did we manage to break pack() so badly?

On 15 January 2014 02:38, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>wrote:

>  * Such issues as lack of stream-reading unpack, Google-style varints,
>    terrible behaviour on buffer under-runs, ...
>

And proper bitwise decoding, not

   BBBB = 4 characters and extract 1 bit from each.

perl -MData::Dump=pp -E' pp( unpack q[BBBBBBBB], q[1234] )'
(0, 0, 0, 0, "", "", "", "")

-- 
Kent

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