A comment:
we are after SIMPLE syntax. This means like C, Fortran, IDL and Matlab.
Perl is about working like most people expect.
To access a single element we want
$a[$i,$j,$k]
for a slice we want
$a[10:20:2, 11:30:3]
Replace "," and ":" with your favourite punctuation stop, and "[]" with your favourite
brackets. $a might be @a in the slice context. I don't really care about
these choices as long as one of them is made. I'll even live with the ";"
rather than this:
> $b = $a[[0,1]]; # $b == 1
which is too much unneccessary typing.
I have no problems with $a[$i][$j][$k] as an alias.
Karl
