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parsing and generating binary data
- To: sen_ml at eccosys dot com
- Subject: parsing and generating binary data
- From: thi <ttn at mingle dot glug dot org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:25:18 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000121101828H.1000@eccosys.com>
- Reply-To: ttn at netcom dot com
sen_ml@eccosys.com writes:
> i'd like to parse and generate arbitrary binary data and i was
> wondering whether anyone could point me at some sample code and/or
> suggest some modules i might be able to use to do this -- i looked
> through my local .scm files w/o much success. i'm thinking of
> functionality like pack/unpack in perl or the struct module from
> python.
>
> i'm a relative newbie concerning guile (though i've had some
> experience writing elisp), so please be gentle.
this sounds like a generally useful feature.
i think the most constructive reply would be to urge you to write
pack/unpack for guile if your search returns nil. then, name it
something like (ice-9 pack) and contribute the code. this can all be
done in guile scheme, which would help you aclimatize as a bonus.
> also, i've been reading the guile-ref, guile-tut, and goops docs;
> are minor comments about grammar and such relevant at this point? or
> should these kinds of things wait 'til the documentation has been
> fleshed out a bit more?
bug reports should be sent to bug-guile@gnu.org. has anyone arranged to
archive bug-guile? that would be a great help in the absense of a bug
tracking system.
happy hacking,
thi