Infinitely expandable string.pack

[Soni "They/Them" L.]

string.pack currently doesn't accept anything past the end of the format
string, it just ignores everything.

what if it didn't? what if, at the end of the format string, it read
another format string?

what if string.pack("I", 32, "I", 64) was the same as string.pack("II",
32, 64)?

thanks.

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[Dirk Laurie-2]

2018-03-28 13:12 GMT+02:00 Soni "They/Them" L. <[hidden email]>:
> string.pack currently doesn't accept anything past the end of the format
> string, it just ignores everything.
>
> what if it didn't? what if, at the end of the format string, it read another
> format string?
>
> what if string.pack("I", 32, "I", 64) was the same as string.pack("II", 32,
> 64)?

Related: what if string.packsize(fmt) returned two values, the second
one being the number of arguments that 'fmt' demands?

[dyngeccetor8]

On 03/28/2018 02:12 PM, Soni "They/Them" L. wrote:
> string.pack currently doesn't accept anything past the end of the format string,
> it just ignores everything.
>
> what if it didn't? what if, at the end of the format string, it read another
> format string?
>
> what if string.pack("I", 32, "I", 64) was the same as string.pack("II", 32, 64)?
>
> thanks.

I'd prefer this extension. (And same extension for "string.format".)

-- Martin