Re: New variable type: matrix

2000-08-28 Thread Doug Hunt
everything together? Since I'm in the 'numeric' camp, I would vote for full membership of the compact array type in the set of perl types. Cheers, Doug Hunt Baris wrote: Hi Karl, Thanks for your comments. I still think it would be a good idea to have a new type for both functional

Re: New variable type: matrix

2000-08-28 Thread Doug Hunt
no sense to hack deeply into the perl core to add a new fundamental type if everything useful that could be done with that type required a separate module... Just my $0.02 Doug Christian Soeller wrote: Doug Hunt wrote: But I would like to speak up in support of Baris' idea. I have long