Not really, except insofar as we've talked about compact classes of
native types working like C structs. There are lots of nitty things
we can fix with pack/unpack, but the basic underlying problem is
that pack/unpack are defined operationally rather than declaratively.
I think it's worth taking a look at Marcus Holland-Moritz'
powerful Convert::Binary::C ( http://search.cpan.org/dist/Convert-Binary-C/ ).
It already offers a way to declaratively convert to/from binary
data, which could serve as inspiration for a similar Perl6 interface.
Greetings,
Christian Renz
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