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

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

I dunno, I am happy about this -- took me a second to realize the
possibilities -- but things like bitfields will still be pretty
difficult maybe?

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Michal Kottman
<michal.kottman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 April 2014 12:08, Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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)?
>
> They allow you to implement 'struct' or 'lpack' functionality directly in
> Lua - i.e. serialize/deserialize binary data. I am actually very happy these
> were added.