Bart Lateur wrote:
>
> >The problem is that
> >
> > $name = "myarray";
> > @$name = (1,2,3);
> > print @$name[0,1]; # 1,2
> >
> >Is very consistent currently. Change one and you have to change the
> >precedence and parsing of all symbolic refs.
>
> You are suggesting to keep a weird prece
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:26:38 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>> I agree with both of you. It would be nice if @$ precedence worked as Bart
>> specified, but I still think that arrays should be arrays.
>
>The problem is that
>
> $name = "myarray";
> @$name = (1,2,3);
> print @$name[0,1]; # 1,2
>
> I agree with both of you. It would be nice if @$ precedence worked as Bart
> specified, but I still think that arrays should be arrays.
The problem is that
$name = "myarray";
@$name = (1,2,3);
print @$name[0,1]; # 1,2
Is very consistent currently. Change one and you have to change t
Buddha Buck wrote:
> The main problem I see are these:
>
> @array = ([1,2],[3,4]); # 2-dimensional array, using LOL syntax
> print $array[[1,1]]; # prints 4, OK
> print $array[1]; # prints ?
> print $array[[1,1,1]]; # prints ?
> print $array[[1]]; # prints ?
>
> Ac
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:58:10 +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote:
>
> >Bart Lateur wrote:
> >> Hmm... the problem is, I think, that array references and ordinary
> >> scalars are both scalars.
> >>
> >That's true, but they're scalars with different interfaces. In particular,
> >an array ref can be deref
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:58:10 +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote:
>Bart Lateur wrote:
>> Hmm... the problem is, I think, that array references and ordinary
>> scalars are both scalars.
>>
>That's true, but they're scalars with different interfaces. In particular,
>an array ref can be dereferenced and prov
Bart Lateur wrote:
> Hmm... the problem is, I think, that array references and ordinary
> scalars are both scalars.
>
That's true, but they're scalars with different interfaces. In particular,
an array ref can be dereferenced and provides an array in doing so. If an
index can do this, then it's a
On 20 Sep 2000 04:06:02 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>Ilya Zakharevich brought up the issue of a potential problem with
>objects which use blessed list references as their internal structure,
>and their use as indices. Given a Bignum class, which stores its
>(external) value internally as a
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
Arrays: Use list reference for multidimensional array access
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 8 Sep 2000
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2000
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