Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> At 11:27 PM 8/9/00 +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> >5- Compact array storage: RFC still coming
>
> I hope this RFC will be "Arrays should be sparse when possible, and
> compact" and just about nothing else. :)
>
Why?
Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> At 07:57 AM 8/11/00 +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> >Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > Strong typing and sparse arrays are orthogonal--no reason we shouldn't use
> > > them if someone does:
> > >
> > >$foo[time]
> > >
> > > or something of the sort. (People like huge arrays with
Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> I'm thinking instead of proposing that lists become first-class data
> elements themselves, lazily evaluated. That way we don't flatten until
> someone actually references the list, which makes returns cheaper too. In
> this case we'd push two array markers on the stack, s
ot;
Note this is purely my idea - some PDL people like it. But's I am
deliberately NOT tieing it to PDL.
Karl
=head1 TITLE
Queen of Hearts proposal for variables in Perl.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Karl Glazebrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 8 August 2000
Version: 1.00
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