Re: (random) musings on I/O disciplines

[email protected] (Andy Dougherty) Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:04:52 -0400 (EDT)

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On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> Well, the impression I get from Larry is that he wants the internals to be 
> character-formatting neutral. Scalars should be able to provide their 
> contents in a number of different formats, but perl would usually not have 
> One True Format internally.

I may be way off base here, but this seems to me like it would also
help with the PDL/numerical python^Wperl issues about dealing with large
numerical matrices.

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    Andy Dougherty		[email protected]
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042