Re: New variable type: matrix

Nathan Torkington wrote:
> 
> Karl Glazebrook writes:
> > I agree with your sentiments. Most people in PDL DO come from the
> > number crunching/scientific background.
> 
> Whereas the rest of Perl users don't, and will probably never need the
> matrix manipulation stuff.  I think a happy medium would be to provide
> core support for operators and syntax that the PDL module would then
> use to implement matrices and their operations in a way that you want
> them to work.
> 
> Nat

Yes. I have no problems with modules providing more powerful abstractions.

The key from my point of view is to have enough syntactical
hooks in the core so that using it is not like wading through
treacle. Hence the PDL RFCs - especially on [] overloading and ranges.

The Numerical Python people seem to have accomplished this, and we can't
let them win!! :-)

Karl