Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
>How about having a specific function for that instead of (string)?
>From a performance standpoint, that shouldn't be a problem.
Any suggestions as to the name of the function?
I'd say something like:
gather(({"abc",({65,65,66}),"def",65})) => "abcAABdefB"
>The original magic '*' operator can be implemented using
>array magic = ({"abc",({65,65,66}),"def"});
>((array(string))magic)*"x"
Yes, but that kills performance, since it creates a (at least one) temporary
string (per subarray) in the process.
>without special code in '*', btw.
If gather() (as above) is allowed in, then I can take out the changes to "*"
(except perhaps the tighter error checks which seem prudent).
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