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At 03:04 PM 9/27/00 -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > Well, the impression I get from Larry is that he wants the internals to be
> > character-formatting neutral. Scalars should be able to provide their
> > contents in a number of different formats, but perl would usually not have
> > One True Format internally.
>
>I may be way off base here, but this seems to me like it would also
>help with the PDL/numerical python^Wperl issues about dealing with large
>numerical matrices.
Yup. The Far Too Clever For Its Own Good stuff that's going into the core
interpreter to handle variables will allow this if folks have the time to
write the code to implement the details.
Dan
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