Jon Lang dataweaver-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:02 AM, yary<not....@gmail.com> wrote:
I am tickled pink to see an Array "rotate" method in the settings spec
S032, as I was thinking of writing up a little discussion on the very
topic.
Has there been discussion on using array rotate on multi-dimensional
arrays? Being able to pass in a vector as the amount to rotate would
be useful.
With a multi-dimensional array, a number of transforms can be considered:
* you can rearrange the elements along a given dimension (e.g., rotate
and reverse).
* you can rearrange the dimensions themselves (e.g., transpose).
A short time ago, something similar came up.
I think the built-in's should stay simple, and a module (or several
different ones) can exist to do comprehensive features for
multi-dimensional arrays. Designing that is really a separate project
in itself, and it may shake out with use.
So keep it out of the core spec.
--John
