Re^2: Advanced Data Structure Question

cdarke,
I am confused - how does skipping a Perl prototype avoid duplicating Perl array handling in C? Perl's arrays are really efficient at doing certain operations and those are the same operations I am going to need to do in C if I decide to use an array as my datastructure. The point of the Perl prototype is so that I can actually see what I need to do. Besides, there is more to the project than just this data structure.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^3: Advanced Data Structure Question by cdarke (Prior) on Apr 19, 2006 at 14:25 UTC
My point is that you can't do the same thing with C arrays as with Perl arrays. Of course Perl is written in C so anything you can do in Perl can be done in C, except there may be a more efficent way of handling things in C.	[reply]
Re^4: Advanced Data Structure Question by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Apr 19, 2006 at 14:30 UTC
cdarke, Ok - I can buy that. So your advice then is to choose an Array as my datastructure and to spend my research time on figuring out how to do what I want in C efficiently. This is valid and is actually the way I am leaning. Just another C neophyte, L~R	[reply]