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Jeremy Howard wrote: > > <Removed -language x-post> > > > Wouldn't it be very useful if all of the applicable polymorphic methods > > of RFC 159 would be overloadable for nD arrays (arrays becoming > > effectively instances of array objects)? I am not sure if this has been > > discussed before but I could think of a whole lot of applications. Often > > you might want to do just that with the suggested multidim arrays. Or is > > that already suggested in some other way? > > > Arrays are just lists of lists that happen to be declared with a simple > type. They are not objects. > > Creating an array-like object with different behaviour could be achieved > through tie(), or by creating an object with RFC 159 methods defined. > > ...Or am I missing something here? It's probably just me but I thought (1) just creating an object leaves me handing around scalars (2) tie doesn't let me modify those polymorphic methods (or does it? and what's the syntax with multi-dims anyway), so there. What I might want to do is overload ADD for a multi-dim array @a. How would I go about it while preserving the array syntax? ChristianThread Previous | Thread Next