Re: RFC 179 (v1) More functions from set theory to manipulate arrays

[Gael Pegliasco]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> >I don't want a set representation. I want set operations. And somehow
> >for this having to add a use statment and who knows what overhead for
> >what seems to be a simple operation is a pain.
> 
> The overhead is not that it should be a module, but rather,
> the sillily/evilly inefficient thing that *you* are doing.
> Or trying to do.
> 
> We have modules to do this.  We have hashes to do this.
> We have the technology.  It is ignored.  Ignorance of
> technology is no excuse for adding strange basic types
> and operations on them into the very heart of a programming
> language.
> 
> --tom

I'm not an expert in technology of programming languages, but I know
that such basic operations exists in other languages, and I'm sure that
it can be possible to add such functions/operators in the heart of Perl
without doing it with sillily/evilly inefficiency.

If others languages can do it, why not Perl ?


Gael,