It's a list! It's an array! No, it's...

[miscdas at boxfrog.com]

Dar Scott writes:
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> 
> I'm working on a way to pack some values together and take them apart.  

Seems to me you just found your name and function names. 

The object is a package.
The functions are pack and unpack.
To string them together or unstring, tie and untie. 

miscdas