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"Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> writes: > Personally I'd be in favour of prototyping a brand new pack-alike > thing on CPAN, to fix these and some other issues. Personally, I'd like to carry this even a step further. The Perl programming language has a couple of features that are basically programming languages within the programming language. These features are pattern matching, pack/unpack and formats. While historically this may have been a good approach, these features have seen a lot of evolution in the last 25 years and one may wonder whether keeping them as a language within a language is still a good thing. For most common purposes it's okay to have these features as they are right now, but when it comes to substantial extensions and improvements it may be worth to consider a new and totally different approach. For pack/unpack I'd love to see a CPAN module that uses a well defined, user friendly and less cryptic method to describe the data packing and unpacking. I know that it is a deadly sin to make a suggestion like this without offering a completely worked out design -- so be it. Nevertheless I do hope that it may free some minds from the dead end track of even more super-cryptic pack/unpack templates. -- JohanThread Previous | Thread Next