NiceSlice(3pm)

💖 NiceSlice(3pm) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a Perl manual page — NiceSlice(3pm) — and no, it's not about your skincare routine, it's about making PDL array slicing not look like a crime scene. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

PDL::Perldl2::Plugin::NiceSlice — literally just here to turn on the PDL NiceSlice syntax. that's the whole job. slay.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the way that this works is: this plugin lets you use the PDL::NiceSlice syntax inside an instance of Devel::REPL — you know, like the new Perldl2 shell, pdl2. 💅

and listen, without the plugin? array slicing looks like this tragedy:

pdl> use PDL;

pdl> $x = sequence(10);
$PDL1 = [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9];

pdl> $x->slice("2:9:2");
$PDL1 = [2 4 6 8];

so many arrows. so many quotes. it's giving ✨effort✨ 😭

but AFTER the NiceSlice plugin has been loaded?? you get to write this instead:

pdl> $x(2:9:2)
$PDL1 = [2 4 6 8];

same result. zero vibes ruined. main character energy fr fr 👑

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⚠️ CAVEATS ⚠️

okay so important one, bestie — don't skip this part 🚨

PDL::NiceSlice uses Perl source preprocessing. so if you need 100% pure Perl compatibility, use the slice method instead. no cap. that's the deal.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• PDL::NiceSlice
• Devel::REPL
• PDL::Perldl

go read those too, iykyk 📚✨

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Chris Marshall, <chm at cpan dot org> — iconic behavior, we stan 🎀

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🦋 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🦋

Copyright (C) 2010 by Christopher Marshall

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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