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Re: Proposed RFC for matrix indexing and slicing

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From:
Nathan Wiger
Date:
August 29, 2000 16:04
Subject:
Re: Proposed RFC for matrix indexing and slicing
Message ID:
39AC4171.2A5344B0@west.sun.com
Jeremy Howard wrote:
>
> I prefer the syntax I suggested yesterday:
> 
>   $a[[$i,$j,$k]];
> 
> which also allows multiple elements:
> 
>   $a[[$i,$j,$k], [$x,$y,$z]];

The problem I have with the above is how similar it is to this:

   @a[$i,$j,$k];

A little too close for comfort, personally. But that's just my opinion.
Then again, we can't make every syntax look radically different, and
they are unique.

And I'm assuming this only returns one element, right? Because if it
returns a list it's not a $scalar. I think by this:

   $a[[$i,$j,$k], [$x,$y,$z]];

You might actually mean this:

   @a[[$i,$j,$k], [$x,$y,$z]];

-Nate

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