merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (09/25/90)
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.) print "Just another Perl [book] hacker," -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/