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Subject: Re: Possible new
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Melvin Smith wrote:
> Exactly. If we added this to String I think it would work.
I don't know if that's exactly what you want. A string is a list of
integers corresponding to character points and nothing more than that
so probably doesn't form a good vehicle for a packed da
At 08:16 AM 2/22/2002 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Friday 22 February 2002 01:01, Melvin Smith wrote:
> > I want to emulate a packed structure with Parrot in the way a compiler
> > would normally do this for a low level machine.
> >
> > It just needs traditional notation for setting fields b
On Friday 22 February 2002 01:01, Melvin Smith wrote:
> I want to emulate a packed structure with Parrot in the way a compiler
> would normally do this for a low level machine.
>
> It just needs traditional notation for setting fields by offset into
> the struct.
>
> I sort of feel that PerlString
I want to emulate a packed structure with Parrot in the way a compiler
would normally do this for a low level machine.
It just needs traditional notation for setting fields by offset into
the struct.
I sort of feel that PerlString _could_ handle this, but I'm curious
if there are any gotchas I'm
