Issue #21785 has been updated by tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson). matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in #note-2:
I am positive about the addition of LEB128. But I don't really like K/k because it doesn't remind me of LEB128 at all (though I know we've used L, E, B already).
Given that the only case pairs not yet used are k, r, and y, either R (vaRiable length), or Y (next to W - BER) would be better than K/k.
Matz.
Thanks for the feedback. I've updated the patch to use R/r! ---------------------------------------- Feature #21785: Add signed and unsigned LEB128 support to pack / unpack https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21785#change-115766 * Author: tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson) * Status: Open ---------------------------------------- Hi, I'd like to add signed and unsigned LEB128 support to the pack and unpack methods. LEB128 is a variable length encoding scheme for integers. You can read the wikipedia entry about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEB128 LEB128 is used in DWARF, WebAssembly, MQTT, and Protobuf. I'm sure there are other formats, but these are the ones I'm familiar with. I sent a pull request here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/15589 I'm proposing `K` for the unsigned version and `k` for the signed version. I just picked `k` because it was available, I'm open to other format strings. Thanks for consideration! -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/