The Matrix to end all Matrix classes (Let's dream!)

[Ary Borenszweig]

Robert DaSilva escribió:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Dan wrote: 
>>> D's slices already perform 90% of the stuff we want in order to
>>> achieve a Matrix.  You more or less just want a standard library that
>>> lets you do it, right?
>> I'd say it lets you do about 50% of the stuff you want for a Matrix, but
>> putting a single percentage figure on it is not really possible, because
>> different features have different importance to different users.
>>
>> In particular:
>> 1) $ can't be used for opIndex or opSlice in user-classes.
> 
> I think there's a proposal for that already.
> 
>> 2) D lacks a clean syntax for slices of multiple dimensions.  opSlice
>> calls must have one and only one ".."
> 
> Can you propose a syntax for that?

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