Re: New variable type: matrix
[email protected] (Chaim Frenkel) 29 Aug 2000 14:54:59 -0400
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>>>>> "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> -- Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc. [email protected] +1-718-236-0183