That makes no sense at all. It breaks everything: 

pp \$a;;
[Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at C:/Perl64/lib/Data/Dump.pm line 
+458, <STDIN> line 13.

print unpack 'H*', $a;;
Malformed UTF-8 character (byte 0xfe) in unpack at (eval 21) line 1, <
+STDIN> line 14.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x84, with no 
+preceding start byte) in unpack
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x80, with no 
+preceding start byte) in unpack
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x80, with no 
+preceding start byte) in unpack
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x80, with no 
+preceding start byte) in unpack
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x80, with no 
+preceding start byte) in unpack
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x80, with no 
+preceding start byte) in unpack
4100000000000000

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And perl already has a perfectly good mechanism for packing integers into strings.

It also means that you now have a mechanism that will allow you to construct a string of packed integers that Perl has no way of unambiguously deconstructing.

I look forward to seeing that deperecated & removed sometime soon.

And it has no bearing upon the original desicussion because SvPVbytes() wouldn't know what to do with it either.

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In reply to Re^36: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly by BrowserUk
in thread Interleaving bytes in a string quickly by BrowserUk

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