in reply to Re^4: How to vector
in thread How to vector

this is a 2-sentence contradiction, because the cpan module uses arrays and perl, and achieves what you claim can't be attained. What I think you mean to say is that many of the functions one would need to do vector manipulations are not native to perl, so one would have to write them from scratch.

What I meant (and what I think the OP was actually asking) is that raw arrays can't, for instance, be used in the following way: 

my $a = [1, 2];
my $b = [0, 3];
my $c = $a + $b;

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