Lutz.. What happens here?
..It looks like a coincidence to me..
>(set 'T ("one" " two " " three"))
>(pack "%s5" T)
" two "
> (pack "%1s7" T)
" three"
If its not a coincidence, then how do I get to "one" ?
PS: yes its a strange way of getting to a variable ;-)
This is just pure coincidence of a wrong format string in your 'pack'.
This is the correct way to pack lists into an array of string pointers:
> (set 'T '("one" " two " " three"))
("one" " two " " three")
> (set 'adr (pack "lululu" T))
" 16b 16 00 b 16 000b 16 00"
> (map get-string (unpack "lululu" adr))
("one" " two " " three")
>
There is also a similar example about this in the manual: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#pack
And a pattern in the second to last table here: http://www.newlisp.org/CodePatterns.html#extending