Re: N-dimensional arrays and compiler support

2012-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
On 23 March 2012 12:55, Carl Mäsak wrote: > The "shaped arrays/hashes" parts of S09 have been in the planning > stages a long time in Rakudo. They've had to wait for better MOP and > better native-types handling (which is another part of S09), but now > the time for shaped arrays/hashes is surely

Re: N-dimensional arrays and compiler support

2012-03-23 Thread Carl Mäsak
Daniel (>>), Stefan (>): >> 1. The semicolon operator would allow Perl 6 to support N-dimensional >> arrays... How would one iterate over that type of array? >> >> my num @matrix[ 10 ; 10 ; 10 ]; >> >> I ask because a natural extension is to add arithmetic operators and >> you have the beginnings o

Re: N-dimensional arrays and compiler support

2012-03-22 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:14:54PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hey, > > I have a few slightly related questions: > > 1. The semicolon operator would allow Perl 6 to support N-dimensional > arrays... How would one iterate over that type of array? > > my num @matrix[ 10 ; 10 ; 10 ]; > > I ask bec

N-dimensional arrays and compiler support

2012-03-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hey, I have a few slightly related questions: 1. The semicolon operator would allow Perl 6 to support N-dimensional arrays... How would one iterate over that type of array? my num @matrix[ 10 ; 10 ; 10 ]; I ask because a natural extension is to add arithmetic operators and you have the beginnin