Re: New variable type: matrix

[Karl Glazebrook]

> If you do a plain
> 
>   my int @foo;
> 
> it'll end up with a contiguous block of memory anyway. :compact seems to
> me more an attribute for sparse arrays than anything else.
> 

Uhm do you mean a contiguous block of 4 byte integers or a countiguous
block of perl scalar structures? It is the former we are after.

Karl