Re: ANN: LuaState (A C++ Lua Wrapper and enhanced Lua 4.1 Distribution)

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>New String Formatting Enhancements
>==================================
>format has been extended with the following control types.  The use of
>these control types makes it easy to write binary file formats to disk.

Nice, but how do you read them back?

I think this functionality would be better in a separate library,
perhaps along the lines of Perl's pack/unpack.

John Belmonte, in a posting of 6 Feb, mentioned that he was working in a library
like that. (The alignment problem he mentioned is now corrected.)
--lhf