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From: ccount@athena.mit.edu (Craig A Counterman)
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Subject: any chance of real multi-dimensional arrays?
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Date: 20 Feb 90 22:54:34 GMT
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Emulated multidimensional arrays are not intuitive.  I.e. I haven't
been able to figure out how to do what I want with them.  Is there any
chance of making '$var[2][0] = 3; $var[2][1] = 4; print $var[2];' do
the right thing?

Also, since there are lists I'd also like the whole suite of Lisp
functions like 'mapcar'.  Actually, I think most exist under other
names, e.g. it looks like 'grep' is actually 'mapcar' by another name.  If
this is true, could lisp-ish names also be used, or at least
documented as such?

And I'd like more stream input functions, like scanf or a 'get_word'
function.  I've written the latter easily enough as a subroutine, but
still...

And while I'm at it...  No, nevermind.

Thanks,
Craig