On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 13:51, Larry Wall wrote:
> In any event, it is absolutely my intent that the builtin array
> types of Perl 6 support PDL directly, both in terms of efficiency
> and flexibility. You ain't seen Apocalypse 9 yet, but that's what
> it's all about. Straight from my rfc list file:
Ok, the combination of Dan's (perhaps overzealous) emphasis on the
dynamic nature of Parrot's client languages and my assumption that we
had learned all there was to learn about the storage of aggregates
mislead me here.
That said, I now see why hyper goes in Parrot... maybe. It depends on
how dynamic Perl is about lazy arrays (e.g. "my int @foo = 1..Inf") and
what happens when I:
my int @foo = 1..3;
$foo[0] = URI::AutoFetch.new("http://numberoftheweek.math.gov/";);
If that's polymorphic, we're hosed. If it's an auto-conversion, then
we're good. I like the polymorphic version for a lot of reasons, but
I'll understand if we can't get that.
Thanks all!
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Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith
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