Re: Possible syntax for code as comment

2005-01-08 Thread Ashley Winters
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:05:20 +0100, Stéphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway the particular length of variables names was not the subject of > my mail, but a good syntax for aliasing name in signatures. Hmm... how about abducting the -> operator and using default variable initializatio

Re: Possible syntax for code as comment

2005-01-08 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:55:39PM +0100, Juerd wrote: > Stéphane Payrard skribis 2005-01-07 21:23 (+0100): > > > my $s := $subjet; > > > my $c := $complement; > > That's what I wanted to avoid. > > Why? Do you expect to use lots of one letter aliases? > > I think it's one of the most e

Dimension of slices; scalars versus 1-element arrays?

2005-01-08 Thread Craig DeForest
I just re-read Synopsis 9, which covers PDL-related actions and array slicing, and came to the conclusion that either (A) there's a hole in the syntax as it is lain out, (B) I lack sufficient understanding of what has been thought out so far, or (C) that part of the language definition isn't fi