On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:39:42PM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: >... > > (and don't ask me about the time I tried to do a hash of hashes of hashes in > > Perl... even with Perl hacker help, I gave up; Perl just wouldn't do it) > > Oh, come on. I do hashes of hashes of hashes frequently in Perl. And > hashes of hashes of arrays of hashes of arrays. And ... well, other > permutations.
Sure, I know it is possible, but really. At the time, it just didn't work. Really. Not some kind of lamer-fu. > And the syntax for a multi-dimensional array is almost > indistinguishable from the example you gave in Python. > > $matrix = [ > [1, 2, 3], > [4, 5, 6], > [7, 8, 9] ]; > print $matrix->[1][2]; Very cool. Man, I wish that woulda worked when I tried it. > A little more punctuation, but, then, you'd expect that from Perl. > > You must have a very lame Perl hacker at your disposal. ;-) This was sometime around 1996, I believe. Perl 4, if I recall. Is it possible that it wasn't so easy in Perl 4? And yah... if the two guys that I was getting help from didn't get it, then I'd be surprised (I respect the guys, quite a bit) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
