Christian Soeller wrote:
>
> No, at least 18. One more piece of semantics that would be appreciated
> is optional omission of trailing dimensions in slices, e.g. for a 3-dim
> @a:
>
> @a[0:1] == @a[0:1;] == @a[0:1;;]
>
> Christian
this would be the * in my proposal made in mail w/ subject
"a syntax derived from..."
I see each dimensional array as a discrete data type as separate as
hashes and arrays are in '5
$a["199 399 599"] = undef; # initialize 3d @a to
# at least 48000000 slots
2d @a and 1d @a remain without any memory for them.
scalar(@a); # zero, 1d @a has nothing in it
scalar(@a["* * *"]); # 48000000
Internally these things would work exactly the same as perl5 arrays,
doubling their internal memory and copying the old into the new as
needed, unless they are marked sparse in which case they would be
trees.
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