Re: pack/unpack is damn unperlish. Explain them as Perl.

[email protected] (Michael G Schwern) Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:19:10 -0400

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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 and
assume that by the time users start writing programs with numbers >
2**31 they'll have read that far.


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