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Re: New variable type: matrix

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From:
Christian Soeller
Date:
August 29, 2000 13:51
Subject:
Re: New variable type: matrix
Message ID:
39AC14EC.B6F07E03@auckland.ac.nz
Chaim Frenkel wrote:

> 
> The current thinking in -internals is that list flattening will be delayed
> to as late as possible.
> 
> One possiblity would be that only @_ would do any flattening. It would
> walk each argument with an appropriate iterator to return the flattened
> list.
> 
> A parameter list would then have access to the actual items on the list.

That sounds good. However, doesn't it need to be spelled out in some RFC
that such a feature is crucial for certain things (esp. numerical
multidim array passing) to make sure it's not dropped (for unrelated
reasons) later on?

  Christian

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