Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote:
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 08:21:29AM -0700, yary wrote:
: I do see a problem if there's more than one unspecified dimension.
: Though I suppose an array of shape(*;*) as an lvalue might be a
: constraint allowing assignment only of another 2D array?
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I haven't gotten deep into the shape/array specs and I need to... nonetheless
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
> I don't see why we shouldn't use the capture shape of the value
> by default all the time, and do linear reshaping only if the value
> comes in as a flat list.
This h
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 08:21:29AM -0700, yary wrote:
: I do see a problem if there's more than one unspecified dimension.
: Though I suppose an array of shape(*;*) as an lvalue might be a
: constraint allowing assignment only of another 2D array?
I don't see why we shouldn't use the capture shape
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:43 PM, John M. Dlugosz > And it should be an
error if dimensions other than the highest are
> unspecified. How can it know how to shape it? Use an explicit command to
> shape up the argument in that case.
I don't see why shape(2;*) is not a problem and shape(*;2) is a
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Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote:
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:23:41PM -0700, yary wrote:
: How does one create an anonymous multidimensional array in p6? Not an
: array of arrays or a capture of captures...
But I would expect a shaped array to be able to coerce either of
those into its
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:23:41PM -0700, yary wrote:
: How does one create an anonymous multidimensional array in p6? Not an
: array of arrays or a capture of captures...
But I would expect a shaped array to be able to coerce either of
those into its internal format. And coercing captures into
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