Re: RFC 231 (v1) Data: Multi-dimensional arrays/hashes and slices

[email protected] (Karl Glazebrook) Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:32:58 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> 
> Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > ...Do you say you are confused by using vectors (=scalars) instead of
> > arrays?
> 
> I'm not having a problem with that personally but *many* users of PDL
> have complained about being confused by this.
> They assume ndim == array == perl array.
> 
>   Christian

Yes this is the point. I guess another way of looking at it is
saying that 3*@a operates in a list context not a scalar context
and that we will define the behaviour of '*' in this context.
(Currently it is not defined, hence @a is converted to scalar(@a)).

Karl