On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:32:39AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: > > Its just damn unperlish. Perhaps that's in its nature, being that its > > for converting data from things which are Perl, but we've got to be > > able to do better. > > > > RFC 142 may not be perfect, but it results in similar functionality > as this set of RFCs, but creates a friendlier access interface. RFC 142 may help out existing un/pack users, but does nothing to help in the understanding of un/pack by native speakers of Perl. I'm starting to think this is largely a documentation issue. -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ schwern@pobox.com Just Another Stupid Consultant Perl6 Kwalitee Ashuranse It's time for my sponge bath and I'm feeling very, very dirty. -- Toothgnip www.goats.comThread Previous | Thread Next