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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Data Structures
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Date: 28 Jan 91 22:23:53 GMT
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Someome awhile back mentioned wanting arrays of filehandles.

A more general question is "what about arrays of arrays"?
For example, how would I implement trees without this?

I know I can build strings and eval them. Kluge.
And I can look up a Knuth algorithm for simulating
them with numeric indices, ala Fortran. No dice.
Finally, I can build string representations of
how they would look in lisp and manipulate them
with LISP-oid functions. But I want primitives in perl.

Arrays are often referred to as lists in the manual.
However, imagine how useful LISP would be without
the capability to nest them.
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	Root Boy Jim Cottrell <rbj@uunet.uu.net>
	Close the gap of the dark year in between