Re: New variable type: matrix

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
> At 12:28 PM 8/29/00 -0400, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
> 
> >But scalars are not compact.
> 
> Since scalars are singular things, how would you compact them anyway?
> 

If I say $a = ones(float,10,10) in PDL then each element of $a
is a 4 byte floating point number.

This is not a perl scalar.

If I then say $b = $a->slice("(5),(5)") then $b is a zero-dim
piddle - not a scalar.

Karl