[Israel.pm] pack vs. different architectures

[Ephraim Dan]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 11:20, Roman M. Parparov wrote:

> 	my $str =
> 	  pack('a8',$hdr->{id}) .
> 	    pack('f',$hdr->{lat}) .
> 	      pack('f',$hdr->{lon}) .
> 		pack('f',$hdr->{t}) .
> 		  pack('N',$hdr->{nlev}) .
> 		    pack('N',$hdr->{flag});
> 	syswrite(DAT,$str);

A style question - why are you calling pack 6 times?  The function
prototype for pack is "pack TEMPLATE, LIST".

To me, it's much clearer to write:

my $str = pack( "a8 f f f N N",
    $hdr->{id},
    $hdr->{lat},
    $hdr->{lon},
    $hdr->{t},
    $hdr->{nlev},
    $hdr->{flag}, );

- Ephraim