Re: Support for array(string|array(int))*string

Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:

How about having a specific function for that instead of (string)?

From a performance standpoint, that shouldn't be a problem.

Any suggestions as to the name of the function?

I'd say something like:

gather(({"abc",({65,65,66}),"def",65})) => "abcAABdefB"

The original magic '*' operator can be implemented using

array magic = ({"abc",({65,65,66}),"def"});

((array(string))magic)*"x"

Yes, but that kills performance, since it creates a (at least one) temporary string (per subarray) in the process.

without special code in '*', btw.

If gather() (as above) is allowed in, then I can take out the changes to "*" (except perhaps the tighter error checks which seem prudent).