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<Removed -language x-post> > Wouldn't it be very useful if all of the applicable polymorphic methods > of RFC 159 would be overloadable for nD arrays (arrays becoming > effectively instances of array objects)? I am not sure if this has been > discussed before but I could think of a whole lot of applications. Often > you might want to do just that with the suggested multidim arrays. Or is > that already suggested in some other way? > Arrays are just lists of lists that happen to be declared with a simple type. They are not objects. Creating an array-like object with different behaviour could be achieved through tie(), or by creating an object with RFC 159 methods defined. ...Or am I missing something here?Thread Previous | Thread Next