On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:32:42 AM UTC-8, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Don Gateley <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Nonsense. >> > > It would be much more helpful (not to mention polite) to make an actual > counter argument. Given a convincing argument for a feature like this, it > may very well get implemented and included in the language. Given > "Nonsense", I for one am inclined to do nothing. >
In general I think it a real language plus if operation is uniform across data geometries. APL stands as a model of this kind of design. Having to special case code based on how an array is organized just seems wrong to me. Or nonsensical. :-)
