Oha (>): > after speaking with masak, i come up with some ideas about Buf > i would like to share with you, maybe you can find them usefull > > http://register.oha.it/buf.pod
Just thought I'd weigh in here a bit. Oha's proposal consists of two parts, each of which is interesting in its own right: * The spec already has Buf as a Stringy, Array-ish thing. Perhaps one could optimize for the ways Buf will actually be used, and think up an API that combines the encoding/pushing and decoding/shifting into single operations? * Grammars define a hierarchical structure that seems to be perfect for encoding the packing of larger pieces of data, for example when serializing an object structure. Could one use grammars, or something very much like it, as a "modern" &pack template? While I'm not convinced of the specifics of Oha's proposals, I think the cores of both of these ideas have merit. // Carl
