Re: New variable type: matrix

[Karl Glazebrook]

But scalars are not compact.
 
Nathan Wiger wrote:

> To avoid anyone getting yelled at by TomC or someone else: Yes. Anything
> individual in Perl is a scalar. By definition. Please don't try to
> change this.
> 
> For more details on this, please read this email:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg00329.html
> 
> Under these definitions - which are at the core of Perl - piddles are
> just @arrays (maybe special arrays, though, see Buddha's RFC) and do not
> warrant their own data type. Yes, I do view this as a good thing.
> 
> -Nate

There are issues with references and subroutine argument passing 
which must be clarifies before one can decide on whether piddles
can be @arrays

Karl