Re: Upcoming RFC's...

2000-09-01 Thread Jeremy Howard
Karl Glazebrook wrote: > I would rather see one largeish RFC integrating all these. More RFCs > are not necessarily better. > The -language WG chair has requested that each RFC contain just one key proposal, and that multiple related RFCs be drawn together with an overview RFC.

Re: Upcoming RFC's...

2000-09-01 Thread Karl Glazebrook
I would rather see one largeish RFC integrating all these. More RFCs are not necessarily better. "Advanced Perl Multi-dimensional notation". And n-dim things are not necessarily matrices. Karl Buddha Buck wrote: > > If I'm stepping on toes here, please tell me... > > Here are some suggestion

Re: Upcoming RFC's...

2000-08-31 Thread Jeremy Howard
Buddha Buck wrote: > If I'm stepping on toes here, please tell me... > See my other message today for the RFCs I'm thinking of writing. Buddha--you and I should probably sought out offline which of us will write what RFC. > RFC 169v2: Matrix Indexing > Cover my $matrix[$x;$y;$z] syntax >

Re: Upcoming RFC's...

2000-08-31 Thread Christian Soeller
Buddha Buck wrote: > RFC X+2: Retrieving Matrix dimensions > Present @#matrix as analogous to $#array > Discuss what $#matrix should return, as well as @#array > What is @matrix in scaler context? (undef, anyone?) Number of elements? For sparse matrices number of non-zero elements?

Upcoming RFC's...

2000-08-31 Thread Buddha Buck
If I'm stepping on toes here, please tell me... Here are some suggestions for some upcoming language-data RFC's I'm thinking of writing: RFC 169v2: Matrix Indexing Cover my $matrix[$x;$y;$z] syntax Add Jeremy's $matrix[$listref] syntax Discuss why two ways of doing it. Move inde