Re: New variable type: matrix

[Jeremy Howard]

Christian Soeller wrote:
> Jeremy Howard wrote:
> > >
> > Ditto. As I said yesterday, my current preferred option is that a list
ref
> > of list refs will also support a multidimensional indexing syntax.
> > Furthermore, if it has a single basic data type and is declared
':compact'
> > it should be stored in a contiguous block of memory.
>
> Sounds good. Nothing in the syntax should make assumptions how the
> multi-dim array is implemented (e.g. list of list-refs or whatever).
>
Just because the structure would support the list ref of list refs syntax,
doesn't imply _anything_ about how it is implemented.

I'm halfway through a reply to Buddha Buck's RFC on n-dim arrays in which I
expand on this--let me know what you think.