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Re: New variable type: matrix

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From:
Christian Soeller
Date:
August 28, 2000 16:14
Subject:
Re: New variable type: matrix
Message ID:
39AAE4F2.24B9B6AE@auckland.ac.nz
Doug Hunt wrote:

> What I meant to say (but failed, alas) was that I support the idea for a
> new perl variable type called compact array:
> 
> $foo -- scalar
> @foo -- array
> %foo -- hash
> ^foo -- compact array (or whatever notation)

I seem to remember that ^ was in the process of being highjacked by some
other RFC already. Was it higher-order functions?

  Christian
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