Yes adding use PDL::NiceSlice at top of the script solved the problem. Thanks!
Maggie On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Craig DeForest <[email protected]>wrote: > The NiceSlice syntax is accomplished via a Perl source-code filter that > preprocesses your > script even before Perl gets to it. To turn that on you have to say "use > PDL::NiceSlice" somewhere > at the top of your script, to turn on the nice slicing. > > The autoloader does that for you in your .pdl files, but in Perl scripts > you have to remember to > invoke NiceSlice in every file that uses it. That is a wart having to do > with the fact that we're > changing the Perl 5 syntax. It will hopefully go away if Perl 6 is ever > released (because then we will > have run-time access to the parser). > > Cheers, > Craig > > > > On Apr 1, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Maggie wrote: > > Problem: >> perldl shell complains about syntax error in my script, but the same lines >> were run just fine if typed into the shell. >> >> The file try.pl has these 2 lines >> >> $a = sequence 4, 2; >> p $a( ,1); >> >> perldl> do 'try.pl' >> >> syntax error at /data/home/maggie/try.pl line 2, near "$a( " >> >> Now, I checked that NiceSlice is enabled in the shell. >> >> perldl> $a = sequence 4, 2 >> >> perldl> p $a( ,1) >> >> [ >> [4 5 6 7] >> ] >> >> What's going on? >> >> Thanks! >> Maggie >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl >> > >
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