Re: New variable type: matrix

[email protected] (Chaim Frenkel) 29 Aug 2000 14:54:59 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "CS" == Christian Soeller <[email protected]> writes:

CS> The other problem with arrays is: how do we deal with functions that
CS> take multiple piddle arguments if they are arrays:

CS>    @result = integrate @x, @y, @bounds;

CS> Won't those all be clumped into one big input array? Does it mean we
CS> have to write

The current thinking in -internals is that list flattening will be delayed
to as late as possible.

One possiblity would be that only @_ would do any flattening. It would
walk each argument with an appropriate iterator to return the flattened
list.

A parameter list would then have access to the actual items on the list.

<chaim>
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