Re: An idea for doing pack.

2005-07-29 Thread David Formosa \(aka ? the Platypus\)
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:46:14 +0300, Yuval Kogman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I like your Pack object - that is the parsed template, but I'd also like to be able to generate these templates with a programmatic interface that isn't string concatenation... Is it just a simple data

Re: An idea for doing pack.

2005-07-28 Thread Yuval Kogman
I have a fundamental disagreement with what pack used to be - it's too stringish... =) the printf and unpack syntaxes always bothered me because they are akin to 'eval'ing, more than they are to quasi quoting. I like your Pack object - that is the parsed template, but I'd also like to be able to

An idea for doing pack.

2005-07-27 Thread David Formosa \(aka ? the Platypus\)
Last night I had an idea about a possable pack API. Most likely when Pugs gets signifigently powerfull I will attempt to implement it. However I would like everyones input, below is a draft of its POD. =head1 NAME Pack - (un)pack structures as defined by a Template =head1 SYNOPSIS my Pack