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On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:01:11AM +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> > It's now boiling down to a matter of opinion and we'll have to agree to
> > differ. Of course I use array arithmetic all the time as a heavy PDL
> > user.
> It's not just for number-crunchers either. Array notation greatly simplifies
> many frequently used operations. For instance (from RFC 82):
>
> @people = ('adam', 'eve ', 'bob ');
> @scores = (7,9,5); # Score for each person
> @histogram = '#' x @scores; # Returns ('xxxxxxx','xxxxxxxxx','xxxxx')
> print join("\n", @people . ' ' . @histogram);
>
> adam xxxxxxx
> eve xxxxxxxxx
> bob xxxxx
Are you trying to convince me/us that is going to be used often?
> Array notation is not 'rarely used' in languages that support it--in fact,
> operations are applied to arrays and lists at least as often as scalars in
> most code I see written for Mathematica, J, PDL, and so forth.
a) You can *already* use vectors as scalars in Perl;
b) What we are discussing is Perl, not Mathematica, J, PDL, and so
forth. These languages have a very narrow niche.
Ilya
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