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

[Dan Sugalski]

At 04:31 PM 8/11/00 -0400, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >
> > I'm thinking instead of proposing that lists become first-class data
> > elements themselves, lazily evaluated. That way we don't flatten until
> > someone actually references the list, which makes returns cheaper too. In
> > this case we'd push two array markers on the stack, so if the outer 
> code was:
> >
> >    ($foo, $bar) = whatever();
> >
> > and whatever() returned two arrays of a thousand elements each, we wouldn't
> > bother pushing 1998 worthless elements on the stack...
> >
>
>Which leads to my other question - have you seen my draft "Queen of Hearts"
>RFC?

I'm not sure. Given the mushy state of my brain at the moment, that doesn't 
ring any bells. Details? (Keeping in mind I'm not on the PDL list)

                                        Dan

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