Re: PDL-P: Re: Hooks for array notation (was Re: Ramblings on "baseclass" for SV etc.)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 07:57 AM 8/11/00 +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Strong typing and sparse arrays are orthogonal--no reason we shouldn't use
> > them if someone does:
> >
> >    $foo[time]
> >
> > or something of the sort. (People like huge arrays with few scalars in
> > them too... :)
> >
>Good point. It also occurs to me that we would want some syntax to say
>"Don't make this sparse". That way, arrays that are, for example, read from
>a file, could be stored contiguously and can be accessed without traversing
>extra pointers.

I dunno. If someone tells perl an array's sparse, I'd tend to believe they 
knew what they were doing. Wouldn't hurt to have some sort of debugging 
analysis messages that's notice you declared an array sparse but it really 
wasn't, but...

                                        Dan

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