HaloO, Larry Wall wrote:
It's also possible I'm just nuts, and slice context should be a purely run-time activity.
Reading your explanation of array slice context I missed an answer to the question how the shape of an array is split into the contexts of functions called inside .[]. I guess the statement @array[foo;bar] breaks down into the following steps: 1) get $slice = @array.shape 2) call &foo with $slice as context 3) augment $slice with whatever &foo returned 4) call &bar with the new $slice context 5) finalize $slice 6) call @array[$slice] The case with variables instead of functions is easier since fetching the variable's content is not interested in context, right? But then I don't understand why $foo = **; $bar = 1; @b = @array[$foo;$bar]; shouldn't slice @array in all dimensions except the last, such that @b.shape.elems == @array.shape.elems - 1. Regards, TSa. -- The Angel of Geometry and the Devil of Algebra fight for the soul of any mathematical being. -- Attributed to Hermann Weyl
