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I could use it. I know the data I'd be passing are byte strings. Nothing else makes sense given the purpose of the code.

But I know I'm not going to use it, so I don't waste time perfecting code that I'm not going to use for all possible scenarios. It'd be like ironing my old newspapers before discarding them :)

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Re^6: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2010 at 22:10 UTC

    I could use it. I know the data I'd be passing are byte strings.

    That only excuses the first of the three. Mind you, the third could be documented as a known limitation, but it's probably free to handle.

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      Okay. How could it "silently encode my bytes as utf"?

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      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        Perl has two types of strings. Strings of ≤8-bit values and strings of ≤32/64-bit values. If it uses the latter format to store your string of bytes, they will appears as if they have been UTF-8 encoded if you look at SvPVX.
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