starwing/lua-zlib — comment on commit 0e47a01b79632c444414d7f0d3e3b6b0d584dfe7
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By brimworks:

I'm not a big fan of adding the ambigiously named tobinary function here. I think it would be better for people to use something like lpack for this functionality:

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lpack

This isn't exposing any zlib functionality which is why I don't think it belongs in this module.

Thanks,
-Brian