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

"David L. Nicol" wrote:
> 
> Nathan Wiger wrote:
> 
> > Well, this is not bad, only it's not without its problems. Say you
> > wanted to get your indices implicitly:
> >
> >      @a[getindices()];
> >      @a[$r->get_x, $r->get_y];
> 
>         @a["@{\(getindices())}"];
>         @a[join $",$r->get_x, $r->get_y];

Constructs like this are the reason that we (PDLers) are unhappy with
our current slicing syntax (slice, cf.RFC 115,117). IMHO continuing
along these lines is *not* the way forward.

  Christian