Awesome. Let's do it.
On Jan 4, 2012, at 7:36 PM, chm wrote:
> I propose we use "shape" as the standard term to
> describe the set of dimension extents for a piddle.
> E.g., roughly and without error checking:
>
> pdl> sub shape { pdl($_[0]->dims) }
>
> pdl> $a = zeros(3,2,5);
>
> pdl> p shape($a)
> [3 2 5]
>
> This follows the notation in a number of other
> array languages such as Fortran 95 and later,
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/SHAPE.html
> I think standardizing on this terminology could
> clarify documentation and be useful in the PDL
> Book endeavor.
>
> Thoughts?
> Chris
>
>
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