At 01:47 PM 8/30/00 -0400, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
If you do a plain
my int @foo;
it'll end up with a contiguous block of memory anyway. :compact seems to
me more an attribute for sparse arrays than anything else.
Uhm do you mean a contiguous block of 4 byte integers or a
Karl Glazebrook writes:
Yes. And for the record I also think the current approach of lets generate
ten million RFCs and Uncle Larry knows best is nuts. There are already
too many RFCs on this topic alone to grasp coherently.
Do you have a better suggestion?
Nat
Nathan Torkington wrote:
Karl Glazebrook writes:
Yes. And for the record I also think the current approach of lets generate
ten million RFCs and Uncle Larry knows best is nuts. There are already
too many RFCs on this topic alone to grasp coherently.
Do you have a better suggestion?
Karl Glazebrook wrote:
There is a difference between a List of Lists and a multi-dimensional
array - the
latter is rectangular, e.g. the rows are all the same size so you don't
have to
store the sizes of individual ones. So the latter needs much less storage
overhead.
How would you be
Buddha Buck wrote:
RFC 169 says it would be nice if:
@a[^i;^j] = @b[^j;^i];
did a transpose operation.
Should the syntax also allow:
# fill a 10x10 array with 0-99
my @table: bounds(10,10);
@table[^i;^j] = ^i*10 + ^j;
I think it should--it seems a natural extension.
