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Re: Proposed RFC for matrix indexing and slicing

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From:
Christian Soeller
Date:
August 29, 2000 13:46
Subject:
Re: Proposed RFC for matrix indexing and slicing
Message ID:
39AC139B.336F87FC@auckland.ac.nz
Dan Sugalski wrote:

> >Meanwhile we all go rambling around on cross-threads and come up
> >with no coherent set of proposals.
> 
> So? If the idea has merit, it'll make it into one or more RFCs, and Larry's
> rather good at making things coherent. If it just putters around for a
> while on the list, then maybe it's really not worth all that much.

What Karl was trying to get at is a suggestion to have one RFC on
indexing instead of three competing ones, for example. The current
approach seems to be make a new RFC always (regardless what is there
already). The other approach would be to take existing ones and rewrite
them heavily.

  Christian

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