Jeremy Howard wrote:
> >
> Of course they have reasonable meanings for arrays--element-wise operations
> (RFC 82):
>
> http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/rfc/82.html
>
> Any operation you can do on a scalar you should be able to do element-wise
> on a list, and certainly it's not hard to come up with situations where this
> is useful for non-short-circuiting bitwise operators. Bit vectors and
> associated masks may well be stored in lists, for instance.
>
> This discussion should probably be on -data, BTW.
Wouldn't it be very useful if all of the applicable polymorphic methods
of RFC 159 would be overloadable for nD arrays (arrays becoming
effectively instances of array objects)? I am not sure if this has been
discussed before but I could think of a whole lot of applications. Often
you might want to do just that with the suggested multidim arrays. Or is
that already suggested in some other way?
Christian
