Re: List generation (was Re: PDL-P: No status field for Perl6 RFC 115 )

2000-09-04 Thread Robin Williams
"Jeremy Howard" writes:- > Yes, I like it too, but the problem is that $end may not be reached: > > @weird = (0..5: ^0 mod 2); > > is an infinite loop under this proposal. That's not necessarily a dead-end, > but it seems pretty dangerous. Like for (;;) ? Or 1:11:-1 ! > The $num_steps pro

List generation (was Re: PDL-P: No status field for Perl6 RFC 115 )

2000-09-04 Thread Jeremy Howard
Robin Williams wrote: > "Jeremy Howard" writes:- > > > The first version of this > > RFC had a > > > > @start..$end:&gen > > > > but it just seems too dangerous, so I removed it. I'm still willing to be > > convinced though... > > as well as @start..&gen:$num_steps ? Yes, I'd agree you'd have

Re: PDL-P: No status field for Perl6 RFC 115

2000-09-04 Thread Jeremy Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeremy Howard wrote: > > > > > C<;> is particularly useful for creating slices of multidimensional arrays: > > > > my int @array = ([1,2,3], > >[4,5,6], > >[7,8,9]); > > @col2 = @array[(0..2); 1]; # @array[[0,1],[1,1],[2,1