Re: RFC 90 (v3) Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge()

2000-09-11 Thread Jeremy Howard
Christian Soeller wrote: Jeremy Howard wrote: However I like the Numeric Python reshape() semantics better: http://starship.python.net/~da/numtut/array.html Is that in any significant way different from PDL's reshape? http://pdl.sourceforge.net/PDLdocs/Core.html#reshape The

Re: RFC 90 (v3) Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge()

2000-09-10 Thread Damian Conway
I *still* think it should be "unmerge"! ;-) Damian

Re: RFC 90 (v3) Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge()

2000-09-10 Thread Chaim Frenkel
"DC" == Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DC I *still* think it should be "unmerge"! ;-) Hrmpf. It should be reshape. (Which would be its own inverse and saves a keyword.) chaim -- Chaim FrenkelNonlinear Knowledge, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 90 (v3) Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge()

2000-09-10 Thread Jeremy Howard
Removed perl6-announce x-post Chaim Frenkel wrote: "DC" == Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DC I *still* think it should be "unmerge"! ;-) Hrmpf. It should be reshape. (Which would be its own inverse and saves a keyword.) reshape() has already been proposed (RFC 148):

Re: RFC 90 (v3) Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge()

2000-09-10 Thread Christian Soeller
Jeremy Howard wrote: However I like the Numeric Python reshape() semantics better: http://starship.python.net/~da/numtut/array.html Is that in any significant way different from PDL's reshape? http://pdl.sourceforge.net/PDLdocs/Core.html#reshape PS: How does one pronounce 'hrmpf'?

RFC 90 (v3) Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge()

2000-09-08 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge() =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10 August 2000 Last Modified: 8 September 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 90

Re: RFC 90 (v3) Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge()

2000-09-08 Thread Jeremy Howard
Matthew Wickline wrote: (not on list, just tossing this in for discussion) OK--we'll keep you cc'd in on this discussion. RFC 90 (v3) wrote: - Both Cmerge and demerge do not make - a copy of the elements of their arguments; - they simply create an alias to them: - 1 @a = (1,3,5); 2