Upcoming RFC's...

If I'm stepping on toes here, please tell me...

Here are some suggestions for some upcoming language-data RFC's I'm 
thinking of writing:

RFC 169v2: Matrix Indexing
    Cover my $matrix[$x;$y;$z] syntax
    Add Jeremy's $matrix[$listref] syntax
    Discuss why two ways of doing it.
    Move index iterators to new RFC
    Move matrix slicing to new RFC
    Move @#matrix to new RFC

RFC X: Matrix Slicing
    Cover @matrix[@x,@y,@z] syntax
    Cover @matrix[@listoflistrefs] syntax
    Discuss how they are different, with examples.

RFC X+1:  Matrix Index Iterators
    Explain the issue
    Present ^i,^j syntax (and why IMHO it has problems)
    Present @* syntax    (and why IMHO it is ugly ;-) )
    Ask for better alternatives.

RFC X+2: Retrieving Matrix dimensions
    Present @#matrix as analogous to $#array
    Discuss what $#matrix should return, as well as @#array
    What is @matrix in scaler context?  (undef, anyone?)

This covers (and slightly expands on) the "consensus proposals" we have 
achieved (I believe).  I'll post these tonight, and if there are no 
problems, I think we can probably quickly freeze RFC169 and RFC X.  The 
others might have more discussion.

I think Jeremy should also post an RFC detailing his LOL syntax extensions 
for accessing matrix elements.

A new proposal:

RFC X+3: Flattening Matrices
    Present @array = flatten(@matrix), which returns the elements of @matrix
        as a 1-dimensional (sparse) array.
    Discuss the efficiency of this
    How to undo?

A needed RFC that I'm not confident to write, but I feel it is needed:

RFC X+4: Syntax for Matrix Literals.

• Upcoming RFC's... by Buddha Buck
• Re: Upcoming RFC's... by Karl Glazebrook
• Re: Upcoming RFC's... by Jeremy Howard
• Re: Upcoming RFC's... by Jeremy Howard
• Re: Upcoming RFC's... by Christian Soeller