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

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Aug 20 14:55:39 EDT 2014


Peter Haworth wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> get tArray[1,2]
>
> Thanks for the explanation Richard. So the only difference is that they are
> one dimensional but the keys can kind of express multiple dimensions by
> being numeric and separated by commas?  Are the keys limited to the two
> dimensions in your example?

Well, technically it's just one-dimensional, a string that happens to 
have a comma in it.

MatrixMultiply requires that format, in which the string is comprised of 
two integers separated by a comma.

But for any other purpose you can use any string you like.

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