Re: New variable type: matrix

[email protected] (Christian Soeller) Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:54:20 +1200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Organization University of Auckland
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chaim Frenkel wrote:

> 
> 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.

That sounds good. However, doesn't it need to be spelled out in some RFC
that such a feature is crucial for certain things (esp. numerical
multidim array passing) to make sure it's not dropped (for unrelated
reasons) later on?

  Christian