Re: RFC 148 (v1) Add reshape() for multi-dimensional array reshaping

[email protected] (Nathan Wiger)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > > $a[$i][$j][$k] or $a[$i,$j,$k]

> The second one has no useful meeting, "," is just an operator which
> does nothing much useful in this context.

Not true, at least not in the Perl I know. :-) Here's a description of
what these do in Perl just to clarify:

   $a[0][1][2];      # get a single multidimensional element
   $a[0,1,2];        # get elements 0, 1, and 2 of @a

This lets you say:

   ($user, $home, $shell) = (getpwnam('nwiger'))[0,7,8];

Pretty cool, eh? This has been in Perl forever. 

-Nate
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