Re: [RFC] Add pack()/unpack() support for signed integers with specific endianness

Hi Rob, > Thank you for your work on this. Of all the RFCs I've seen in awhile, this one is one that > I'm most excited to see after writing a protobuf implementation. Happy to see you immediately have a use case in mind while reading this! > If there is one thing I would be over the moon for, it would be for also adding zigzag encoding > as a possible signed integer encoding (maybe using Z/z as the letter)? I wasn't aware this encoding existed. I'm happy to learn about it! Unfortunately, Z is already used with pack/unpack. After a quick research, I think it would be a nice feature. I also noticed that languages like Rust and Python use external packages for this it seems. I guess it would be better to have dedicated functions. I don't think it should be included in this RFC, but that is an interesting idea nevertheless. I'd be really interested if someone comes up with an RFC for this feature! — Alexandre Daubois