Re: A thought concerning matrix index variables...

[email protected] ("Jeremy Howard") Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:10:47 +1100
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Buddha Buck wrote:
> RFC 169 says it would be nice if:
> 
>    @a[^i;^j] = @b[^j;^i];
> 
> did a transpose operation.
> 
> Should the syntax also allow:
> 
>    # fill a 10x10 array with 0-99
>    my @table: bounds(10,10);
>    @table[^i;^j] = ^i*10 + ^j;
> 
I think it should--it seems a natural extension.