On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Greg Stein wrote: > > $matrix = [ > > [1, 2, 3], > > [4, 5, 6], > > [7, 8, 9] ]; > > print $matrix->[1][2]; > > Very cool. Man, I wish that woulda worked when I tried it. > > > A little more punctuation, but, then, you'd expect that from Perl. > > > > You must have a very lame Perl hacker at your disposal. ;-) > > This was sometime around 1996, I believe. Perl 4, if I recall. Is it > possible that it wasn't so easy in Perl 4?
Ah. No. Not possible in Perl 4. That was back in the dark ages! ;-) I guess I did not realize that Python was already around back then. References (aka pointers, only not) appeared in Perl 5, and are what makes this syntax posibble. -- Nothing is perfekt. Certainly not me. Success to failure. Just a matter of degrees.
