On 19 April 2014 12:08, Coroutines <
coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just curious what the use-case was, I didn't initially notice them
> because I was pretty happy about the utf8 library.
>
> What do these functions make possible (beyond the obvious)?
They allow you to implement 'struct' or 'lpack' functionality directly in Lua - i.e. serialize/deserialize binary data. I am actually very happy these were added.
