Re: Designing Perl 6 data crunching (was Re: n-dim matrices)

[Jeremy Howard]

Baris wrote:
> >We're talking about how we'll write Perl 6 programs, not PDL programs. We
> >need to ensure that the syntax we create is Perlish.
> Aggreed.
> But there is nothing wrong with making the syntax user friendly, or am I
> totally missing what perl is?

Perl is user-friendly to Perl users. Making it look more like Matlab (or any
other numeric programming environment) and less like Perl is unfriendly to
users.

-data proposals need to fit with the rest of the language. For instance, if
you really think that arrays should be able to be indexed by whitespace
separated indices, this syntax really should be made to work with any list.
Proposing this then requires thinking through all of the implications that
this would involve.