Hi,

At Thu, 29 May 2003 19:23:44 +0900,
Robert Feldt wrote:
> > Rather, what about size specifier extends generic integer
> > conversion?
> >
> >   [10].pack("i(8)") => "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\012" # big endian
> >                     => "\012\0\0\0\0\0\0\0" # little endian
> >
> Sounds like a nice idea. however, for consistency we should also change
> 'A10' to 'A(10)'? Might not be adopted since it breaks old code?

Now 'A10' means a 10 bytes string.  Even if size specifier is
provided it should not be changed, however, 'A(10)' would be
legal and succeeding count also could be allowed; 'A(10)2' for
2 strings each consist of 10 bytes.

-- 
Nobu Nakada