Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
This RFC proposes using @#array, analogous to $#array, to get the list of
upper bounds for a multidimensional array @array. The length of @#array
would indicate the dimensionality of @array.
That's fine. This RFC does not seem to touch on the question what
$#array
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I disagree. You end up with a situation where some
@a * @b;
are in scalar context, some not.
No, everything would be in a scalar context. If you used tie() to
specially tie a variable, then you might be able to overload +, *, -,
etc, but this is no different
Nathan Torkington wrote:
Actually, the only refinement I'd like to see is that boolean operators
(==, , ||) be excepted from the distributive rule.
This is to permit:
if (@a == @b) # shallow comparison
and
@a = @b || @c;# @a=@b or @a=@c; # ish
Yeah, I
Nathan Torkington wrote:
Jeremy Howard writes:
No, there's no arbitrary decision. *Every* operator is component wise on
lists. It is internally consistent, and consistent with most other
languages
that provide array/list operators. It's easy to get stuck on the '*'
example, because
"NT" == Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NT Actually, the only refinement I'd like to see is that boolean operators
NT (==, , ||) be excepted from the distributive rule.
NT This is to permit:
NT if (@a == @b) # shallow comparison
NT and
NT @a = @b || @c;#
Nathan Wiger wrote:
what people would want to use the ops for, and it's also more usable to
us non-PDLers.
I'd like to suggest that it is not a very good idea to start dividing
the world into PDLers and non-PDLers. There are a multitude of reasons
but I am not keen to go into details.
