Re: a syntax derived from constant-time hash-based n-dim matrices in perl 5

[email protected] (Nathan Wiger) Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:27:43 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Organization Sun Microsystems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"David L. Nicol" wrote:
>
>         @a["$i $j $k","$a $y $z"]       # two points in DN n-dim syntax

One problem that immediately jumps out at me is how to do this:

   @a[[@x], [@y]];

That is, dynamically get your indices. The above seems ok when you know
them in advance (at least what variables they're in), but this usually
isn't the case with hardcore matrix manipulation. Having a fixed number
of named indices isn't the norm.

-Nate