In Lua 5.3 -- why were string.[un]pack(int|float)() added?

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Subject: In Lua 5.3 -- why were string.[un]pack(int|float)() added?
From: Coroutines <coroutines@...>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 03:08:57 -0700

I'm just curious what the use-case was, I didn't initially notice them
because I was pretty happy about the utf8 library.

What do these functions make possible (beyond the obvious)?

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