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.
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