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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Multi-dim Arrays (Re: perl 4.0)
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.041955.12670@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 04:19:55 GMT
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In article <1990Sep25.012158.20114@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>, marc@athena writes:
| Is perl 4.0 going to have multi-dimensional arrays in the language?
| This is the only thing I haven't seen a good general-purpose perlish
| way of doing.  Recently, I've wished for them several times, and ended
| up kludging around the problem.  And they were ugly kludges :-)

Not if Perl 4.0 is as described in The Book.  Wait for Perl 5.0. :-)

Tell me about the application that requires multi-dim arrays.  I
chipped my teeth in awk, so I've never really missed them in Perl.  I
s'pose if you're used to having them, you miss'em.

(Use email if you wish.)

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