Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!aks@hub.ucsb.edu From: aks@somewhere.ucsb.edu (Alan Stebbens) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: perl 4.0 Message-ID: <6353@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 21:26:09 GMT References: <1990Sep25.012158.20114@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Organization: CCSE, Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara Lines: 18 In <1990Sep25.012158.20114@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> marc@athena.mit.edu writes: >Is perl 4.0 going to have multi-dimensional arrays in the language? Actually, if Perl 4.0 is going to have new features, I'd vote for structures over multidimensional arrays. Right now, there are kluges and hacks using strings with pack() and unpack() to convert binary structures to and from the system libraries and calls. With structures added (using an appropriate syntax), such contrivances would no longer be needed. Just allowing array elements to have non-scalar values would be a good start. Not that having Perl up to this point hasn't been a Good Thing... :^) Alan Stebbens -- Alan Stebbens