[Parrot-users] does, multi sub, or.... more language philosophy
Jay Emerson
jayemerson at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 17:54:34 UTC 2011
Thanks to Will Coleda for letting me about 'does' (which is terribly
hard to google, sadly), and providing a concise multi sub example as
an alternative. I see how both work. The language I'm working on in
its most basic form (R) has no scalar:
a = 5
b = 1:3
Both are vectors, the first of length 1, the second of length 3. I
would think there is a certain simplicity to this, as subsequent
methods would only be needed for arrays (handling the length
appropriately for the context) rather than treating the former as an
object of a different type. However, maybe I'm thinking at the
"high-level" of the user rather than the "low-level" of the
implementation of the language. Any advice?
Jay
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John W. Emerson (Jay)
Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
Yale University
http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay
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