inline arrays, references, matrices

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

I ran across:

>             Inline arrays and references are interchangeable.
>
under Matrix evaluation.

Which seemed like an odd place for it.

Until I realized that we also say:

> Evaluators that support inline arrays *shall* accept a *matrix* with 
> one or more rows, each with one or more columns, with the same number 
> of columns in each row, with constant values for each expression.
>
(emphasis added)

Which could be re-written to say:

****
Evaluators that support inline arrays *shall* accept a *reference* with 
one or more rows, each with one or more columns, with the same number of 
columns in each row, with constant values for each expression.
****

or

*****
Evaluators that support inline arrays *shall* accept an *inline array* 
with one or more rows, each with one or more columns, with the same 
number of columns in each row, with constant values for each expression.
****

It is this sort of issue that makes standards editors wake up in a cold 
sweat, not Marbux's passive language concerns. Granted I try to root out 
passive language as often as possible but I don't lose any sleep over 
it. Having multiple ways to say the same thing and mixing those in a 
standard, however, is a different thing.

Question: Do we mean the same thing by matrix and (inline array, reference)?

Thanks!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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