On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:04:58AM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> All this talk about slices reminds me of this:
>
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-10/msg00024.html
>
> Although in this thread the idea was more in the way of an internal
> implementation (e.g. to
Peter wrote:
> >$ref =
> > sub{my%k;@k{@{+pop}}=\(@_);splice@_,$_,!$k{$_}for reverse
> > 0..@_;\@_}->(@A,\@I);
>
> Oh, well, if I'd known it was *that* succinct...
>
> But... that *does* involve copying; the original poster was talking
> about huge arrays where copyin
At 01:31 PM 5/21/2001 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>> Um, this is a tiny little diversion here prompted by something that
>> came up on perl-beginners, of all places... it's not possible in
>> perl 5 to make a reference to an array or hash slice without doing
>> some copying.
>>
Peter Scott wrote:
>
> Um, this is a tiny little diversion here prompted by something that
> came up on perl-beginners, of all places... it's not possible in
> perl 5 to make a reference to an array or hash slice without doing
> some copying.
>
Hey, this is *Perl*! Of course i
Um, this is a tiny little diversion here prompted by something that came up
on perl-beginners, of all places... it's not possible in perl 5 to make a
reference to an array or hash slice without doing some copying. It would
be nice if perl 6 made that possible. Maybe it already does and I have
