Re: New variable type: matrix

[email protected] (Christian Soeller) Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:24:44 +1200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Organization University of Auckland
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeremy Howard wrote:
> >
> Ditto. As I said yesterday, my current preferred option is that a list ref
> of list refs will also support a multidimensional indexing syntax.
> Furthermore, if it has a single basic data type and is declared ':compact'
> it should be stored in a contiguous block of memory. 

Sounds good. Nothing in the syntax should make assumptions how the
multi-dim array is implemented (e.g. list of list-refs or whatever).

  Christian