Re: n-dim matrices

[Christian Soeller]

Jeremy Howard wrote:

> I'd rather see the ';' be required, but the '(0..)' not be required, so you

This is not good! There are a lot of routines where it is very useful to
specify a slice as

  @a[0]

that should work regardless how many dimensions @a really has. There are
many instances in PDL routines right now where the equivalent is
something like

  $a->slice('(0)');

It is an extremly(!) useful feature. Buddha's syntax suggestions to
generalize this seem nice.

> already talked about, but with ambiguities and implications sorted out).
> Under one of these RFCs @a[0:1] will have a useful meaning, so I don't want
> it to be equivalent to @a[0:1;;].

Then your new meaning of @a[0:1] is not a good idea IMHO.

  Christian