Re: Random items (old p5p issues)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 09:38 AM 8/2/00 +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > I've been thinking that it'd be nice to support extended array/list stuff
> > to allow the rudiments of matrix operations into perl:
> >
> >   @foo = @bar x 3;
> >   @foo = @bar * 4;
> >   @LoL = @foo * @bar;
> >   @baz =~ s/here/there/;
> >
>This would really fill a gap, if the speed is there.

I should point out that I'm not necessarily advocating that perl 6 actually 
*do* anything with the above constructs, merely that the parser/lexer 
accepts them. I'm OK with the ops they generate being NOOPs for the moment 
and leave the real work to whoever wants to overload them.

Having said that, if Larry says yes and someone handed me code for it, I 
wouldn't say no... :)


                                        Dan

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