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Re: (random) musings on I/O disciplines

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From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
September 27, 2000 12:04
Subject:
Re: (random) musings on I/O disciplines
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Pine.SOL.4.10.10009271503260.18023-100000@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu
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.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042


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