Re: alien question: how to get the address of a buffer object?

[Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei@...>]

>> BTW, have you thought about using a buffer instead of struct.pack?

Oh, also support for unsigned types would be nice (really important
for some libraries with lots of ushorts, eg. firebird). And some way
to get a slice off a buffer as a substring, i.e. add length to
buffer:get() and buffer:set() for type 'string'. Easy to ask for
stuff, eh? :)