Re: New variable type: matrix

2000-08-28 Thread Doug Hunt
lump everything together? Since I'm in the 'numeric' camp, I would vote for full membership of the compact array type in the set of perl types. Cheers, Doug Hunt Baris wrote: > > Hi Karl, > Thanks for your comments. > I still think it would be a good idea to have a

Re: New variable type: matrix

2000-08-28 Thread Doug Hunt
sense to hack deeply into the perl core to add a new fundamental type if everything useful that could be done with that type required a separate module... Just my $0.02 Doug Christian Soeller wrote: > > Doug Hunt wrote: > > > But I would like to speak up in support of Baris

Re: RFC 82 (v3) Arrays: Apply operators element-wise in a list context

2000-09-09 Thread Doug Hunt
Jeremy Howard wrote: > - Mathematica (combines functional, declarative, and procedural styles; > implements memoization, lazy lists, and array notation) > - Matlab (fast and simple array language) > - C++ expression templates such as POOMA and Blitz++ (implicit looping and > generalised slicin