On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 05:59:02AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote: > BTW, Brian, the inefficiency of creating an anonymous Array -- in a > loop -- is precisely why I want String#pack and Fixnum#pack (I don't > want a generic #pack); a Float#pack may be useful. OK, understood. But I'm sure you know to beware the disease known as "premature optimisation" :-) Regards, Brian.