[eeps] EEP extended packet options

[Daniel Goertzen]

Congrats on your first EEP then. :)

With binaries, <<123:32>> and <<123:32/big>>) mean the same thing, so I
think packet spec should be consistent with that and support both {packet,
8} and {packet, {8,big}} as equivalent.  I know the Python struct module
also follows a similar policy for endianess.

Regards,
Dan.


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi!
> I am a EEP newbie, and it's fun to get reactions immediately ;-)
>
> I will not defend the naming of the options proposed. The intention here is
> to get
> the functionality. I will probably propose something similar for the pipe
> driver if this EEP is accepted.
>
> I wanted to touch as few files as possible to get the work done.
>
> I will update the proposal. Since we MUST keep the {packet,<n>} options, I
> still
> think that {packet, - <n>} is not too bad. A immediate question is if
> {packet,8} is
> to defined in parallell to {packet,{8,big}} ?
>
> Well...
>
> Thanks
>
> /Tony
>
>
>
> On 8 sep 2010, at 16.59, Daniel Goertzen wrote:
>
> > Funny, I just tripped on the endian issue about 2 weeks ago.  I would
> love
> > to see better packet control.
> >
> > The negative number idea would seem non-obvious when reading code.  If
> you
> > are proposing a definitions like...
> >
> > {packet, {size,8}}
> >
> > why not also do that for endian control...
> >
> >
> > {packet, {4, little}}
> > {packet, {4, big}}
> > {packet, {4, native}}
> >
> >
> > I intentionally put the number before the endian indicator so that the
> order
> > resembles bit syntax more closely.  Also, the endian indicators are the
> same
> > as used in bit syntax.  I think leveraging people's knowledge of
> bit-syntax
> > would be a plus.
> >
> > A minor nitpick... I would suggest {fixed, 8} (or {8, fixed}) over {size,
> > 8}.  "size" can be ambiguous in this context, "fixed" is less so.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
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