Re: PDL-P: Re: Reduce [was: Re: Random items (old p5p issues)]

2000-08-05 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
Tuomas Lukka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4 Aug 2000, Ariel Scolnicov wrote: Karl Glazebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK I will raise to the bait I think it's a bit unfair to say that PDL people have failed to 'bite', there was quite a bit of discussion on our list after

Re: PDL-P: Re: Reduce [was: Re: Random items (old p5p issues)]

2000-08-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
OK I will raise to the bait I think it's a bit unfair to say that PDL people have failed to 'bite', there was quite a bit of discussion on our list after your post. Also some concern about how much of perl6 is vapourware. I am game to take part in discussions. It has always been apparent to

Re: PDL-P: Re: Reduce [was: Re: Random items (old p5p issues)]

2000-08-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Also on the issue of loop unrolling and efficient looping. PDL has what we call 'threading'. This allows a C-level function to specify the dimensionality of the arguments it accepts. For example a function addtoline() which hyptheticaly adds a constant to a row vector might have a 'signature'

Re: PDL-P: Re: Reduce [was: Re: Random items (old p5p issues)]

2000-08-04 Thread Tim Jenness
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Tuomas Lukka wrote: On 4 Aug 2000, Ariel Scolnicov wrote: Well, first of all, 10:100, 30:200 is not the same: in Perl it comes out as 10..100, 30..200 10, 11, ... , 100, 30, 31, .., 200 Additionally, generically it would not necessarily