Arrays in LC [was: Re: [TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality]

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks to thanks to Peter Haworth, Alex Tweedly and Jacques Hausser for helping me understand why i'm confused! I have tried to start a conversation on the improve list about Jacques' suggestion.

Graham

On 20 Aug 2014, at 10:02, Jacques Hausser <Jacques.Hausser at unil.ch> wrote:

> 
> Le 20 août 2014 à 03:48, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> a écrit :
> 
>> Yes, thanks Alex, I missed that.  It seems that multiply also works that
>> way so I guess the matrixMultiply command must be like the transpose
>> command - works on the old style arrays only.  I wonder why they don't mark
>> those commands a deprecated?
> 
> I agree these commands should be revised and adapted to the new syntax. They were very useful in their time, e.g. in matrix calculus - I used them a lot for multivariate statistical analyses several years ago. But now Constantina Spanoude provides her "Matrix ReCoded" library (http://newsletters.livecode.com/october/issue158/newsletter2.php) which seems quite powerful (I didn't test it but I will as soon as I have time for it). Free advertisement ;)
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