At 07:29 AM 9/19/00 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
I guess, if I had to write an explanation of pack/unpack based on
my limited understanding, it would be something like:
"Unpack takes binary data in some particular format and
disassembles it, assigning various pieces of it to
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I'm sure there are many times when pack should have been used but it
got hacked together with something else. The prime example is [...]
I must admit I'm with Michael on this one. I've been writing Perl
on and off for two or three
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:32:08PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
If I grok'd the bastards, I'd write the explaination myself.
If you grok'd the bastards I bet you'd realize how useless such an
explanation would be. The chief reason for using
Michael G Schwern wrote:
Perhaps someone could attempt to write an explaination of pack and
unpack in completely Perl terms. No bits, no ints, no nybbles,
Uh huh... Are you prepared to write an explanation of Perl arrays
without making any mention of Perl scalars?
--
John Porter
At 02:53 AM 9/18/00 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Perhaps someone could attempt to write an explaination of pack and
unpack in completely Perl terms. No bits, no ints, no nybbles, no
IEEE floating point arithmetic, no prior knowledge of C necessary.
I don't see how you could possibly do it
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:23:21AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
Uh huh... Are you prepared to write an explanation of Perl arrays
without making any mention of Perl scalars?
"An array is a container for a list. Items in the list can be added,
changed and removed, taken off and put onto both
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:31:34PM -0400, Casey R. Tweten wrote:
I think pack/unpack are perlish enough. Especially if we believe that
printf/sprintf are perlish.
Interpolation is perlish. printf and sprintf are not. And for
similar reasons as pack/unpack. "%e a floating-point number, in
Today around 12:32pm, Sam Tregar hammered out this masterpiece:
: On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote:
:
: Perhaps someone could attempt to write an explaination of pack and
: unpack in completely Perl terms. No bits, no ints, no nybbles, no
: IEEE floating point arithmetic, no
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:32:08PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
"Describe to me how you use a supermarket shopping-cart in terms of a
hardware store. Don't mention any words for food. Just talk about nuts
and bolts."
"When shopping for tools, a shopping-cart is the thing you carry your
tools
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:54:04AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
I don't see how you could possibly do it without that any more than you can
use numbers without understanding the range limits of integers and floating
point roundoff.
You ignore that incidental detail until later on in the docs
Michael G Schwern writes:
You can do it! While it seems "food" and "supermarket" are critical
to the understanding of a shopping-cart, they're really just
incedental. I'm saying the same thing about un/pack!
If I grok'd the bastards, I'd write the explaination myself.
Please take this
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Perhaps someone could attempt to write an explaination of pack and
unpack in completely Perl terms. No bits, no ints, no nybbles, no
IEEE floating point arithmetic, no prior knowledge of C necessary.
Those are not Perl. Scalars, arrays, hashes,
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