On 23 March 2012 12:55, Carl Mäsak <cma...@gmail.com> wrote: > The "shaped arrays/hashes" parts of S09 have been in the planning > stages a long time in Rakudo. They've had to wait for better MOP and > better native-types handling (which is another part of S09), but now > the time for shaped arrays/hashes is surely here. If jnthn or pmichaud > hasn't started digging into them by the time I finish the macro grant, > I likely will.
Cool. Part of me wants to volunteer to help, but I know that I just don't have time... > Still, I look forward to those parts being implemented. In some vague > sense, shaped arrays/hashes are "just" sugar, but I believe they'll > form an integral part in "idiomatic Perl 6", and provide a real edge > over corresponding unsugared Perl 5 code, even in fairly simple > scripts. My work is probably not typical, but I would really like to see this feature. Most of my work is numerical computation. My "workhorse language" is Fortran 2008, but I always have either Octave or Python running on a shell for quick calculations and some times to experiment with algorithms. Thing is, I don't like Octave and I don't like Python (and I don't like PDL). Now that I've discovered the Rakudo shell, Perl 6 has basically replaced Python for me. I have considered writing a minimalist "numerical array" class for Perl 6 so I could replace Octave. I gave it a go a few days ago, but I quickly got stuck on how to deal with multi-dimensional arrays. I might come back to this in the summer if I have more time then. Cheers, Daniel. -- I'm not overweight, I'm undertall.
