Mike McGonagle wrote:
Thanks, Martin, I will have to look at the other thread that is discussing this. I should have look at that a little closer.
In that other thread I mentioned that I've changed the name to A_BLOB from A_STRING because it's not really about strings. There's also the issue of the symbol "string" (now "blob") being reserved by my patch, which I think is not necessary so it's going to get changed next time I have time to comprehend what's involved.
I was curious about this as a way of handling doing some SQL processing, but then again, if this is not going to be part of the main, then I wonder if it is a bit too soon to actually expect this to be there in subsequent releases.
I suppose if people actually use it, it will be adopted. It should be useful for handling arbitrary blocks of data, even if they are not organized as bytes.
Martin