Re: [q-lang-users] Vector module

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> (:=) is a good feature, but has really nothing to do with this, and
> should be in some generic place like stdlib (or in clib itself).

I agree. In fact, eventually the entire stuff in reftypes.q should go
into clib.q. My idea was to offer it as a separate package until some
more testing has been done and the interface stabilizes. But I can also
do that right away.

> Using lists to implement put and putmap for tuples is not really good,
> because the whole idea of mutable vectors is to avoid copying them --
> that is, to update them in various ways using only O(1) space.

Well spotted. :) My excuse is that this is only a prototype... ;-)

There used to be some reason why I didn't extend 'do' and the other
generic list operations to tuples, but I can't remember now what it
was... Maybe now is the time to make the interface to tuples more list-like.

Oh well, one thing leads to the next. :) Maybe it would be useful to
have tuple comprehensions as well?

Another issue that I still need to solve is support for higher
dimensions, matrices at least. Something along the lines of array2.

Albert

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