Re: RFC 90 (v1) Builtins: zip() and unzip()

[Nathan Wiger]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:
> 
> These things sound like perfectly reasonable CPAN modules.
> What's the block prevenenting their implementation w/in the
> perl5 framework?

Jeremy and I are working on a general purpose matrix/unmatrix function
that may well be core-worthy. This would allow arbitrary reshaping of 2d
(Nd?) arrays into any form imaginable.

However, I would probably argue that zip/unzip/merge/unmerge/whatever go
into a module (Math::Matrix?) since they'll probably just be specialized
calling forms of matrix/unmatrix. I think the trend is to put a lot of
formerly-core functions and features in modules, especially if subs get
fast enough (and it sounds like they're going to).

-Nate