Bill and Richard,

I fully agree with Bill about the ease of implementing the necessary matrix 
operations functions in LC language - I did it, actually, for what I needed, 
like computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors. It's not even so slow if your 
matrices are not enormous ! And just today, I got a message from 
bugzilla-daemon telling that at Runrev they have worked out (avaiting build) 
the possibility to pass subarrays by reference - very useful ! So we already 
have a very good tool for occasional matrix operations. 

What I suggested is ONLY to deprecate (not suppress, just deprecate) the two 
part keys in bidimentional arrays like myMatrix[i,j] and to allow 
matrixMultiply and transpose to work with matrices built with [i][j] notation. 
Seems to me it would be more coherent.

As for big matrices crunching, well, meteorologists working with Cray machines 
probably don't use LiveCode... (perhaps they should, to get more convincing 
forecasts).

Jacques
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