SPUG: pack and unpack
Andrew Sweger
andrew at sweger.net
Wed Aug 27 15:35:05 CDT 2003
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Richard Wood wrote:
> Surely there are many pack/unpack experts out there in SPUG-land.
There are, but they are few and far between. pack/unpack are a pair of the
more inscrutable functions built into perl. It's a down-and-dirty,
hands-on-the-metal kind of interface that just does not feel very
Perl-ish; a necessary evil, if you will. I typically surround code
containing these functions with a barricade of cinder block-like comments
(lines of #'s):
######################################################################
######################################################################
##### DANGER DANGER - Avert your eyes - DANGER DANGER ######
######################################################################
######################################################################
(Wait, an evil idea has just ignited in my brain. Must find extinguisher.)
--
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
things can go wrong at once.
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