At 08:18 AM 8/29/00 +1200, Christian Soeller wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > That doesn't mean that n-dimensional arrays won't be just sugar over the
> > standard list-o-list structure to start, but they won't have to stay
> that way.
>
>That seems to be a possible route. Get multi-dim syntax for arrays but
>don't assume that they are list-of-list(refs). That way the
>implementation can be tuned as required.
Yup. That's the way a lot of perl 6 may start--the core supports the syntax
properly but not optimally, and gets performance tuned as time goes on.
While I want everything to be blazingly fast, I'll take everything working
and upgradeable to start. :)
Dan
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