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Christian Soeller wrote: > Jeremy Howard wrote: > > > > > Ditto. As I said yesterday, my current preferred option is that a list ref > > of list refs will also support a multidimensional indexing syntax. > > Furthermore, if it has a single basic data type and is declared ':compact' > > it should be stored in a contiguous block of memory. > > Sounds good. Nothing in the syntax should make assumptions how the > multi-dim array is implemented (e.g. list of list-refs or whatever). > Just because the structure would support the list ref of list refs syntax, doesn't imply _anything_ about how it is implemented. I'm halfway through a reply to Buddha Buck's RFC on n-dim arrays in which I expand on this--let me know what you think.Thread Previous | Thread Next