At 11:11 PM 8/15/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>You are missing the beauty of vector/matrix operations.
No, I'm not; I'm opining that the vast majority of Perl users don't need to
do vector/matrix ops, and that they don't belong in the core.
>The math folks
>really would like to be able to describe the operation wanted and have
>perl do the optimization.
Then maybe they should use a dedicate math extension to Perl, like PDL.
>Would adding another character be helpful
>
> @result = @a x|| @b?
>
> @result = @a ||| @b?
>
>or perhaps a modifier?
>
> @result = @a || @b forall;
>
>(Blech, that just doesn read right.)
Perhaps we just need a two-list map, which aliases $a and $b like sort():
@result = map {$a || $b} @a,@b;
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