Re: Proposed RFC for matrix indexing and slicing

[email protected] (Christian Soeller) Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:48:43 +1200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Organization University of Auckland
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dan Sugalski wrote:

> >Meanwhile we all go rambling around on cross-threads and come up
> >with no coherent set of proposals.
> 
> So? If the idea has merit, it'll make it into one or more RFCs, and Larry's
> rather good at making things coherent. If it just putters around for a
> while on the list, then maybe it's really not worth all that much.

What Karl was trying to get at is a suggestion to have one RFC on
indexing instead of three competing ones, for example. The current
approach seems to be make a new RFC always (regardless what is there
already). The other approach would be to take existing ones and rewrite
them heavily.

  Christian