multidimensional numerical arrays

[Thomas Breuel <tmbdev@...>]

Well, since we're on the issue of wish lists, I think a standard  
numerical array module would be desirable, something that provides up  
to rank 4 arrays of basic integer and floating point types.  In terms  
of operations, it wouldn't need anything more than creation,  
subscripting, conversion, and resizing/reshaping.  This could (and  
probably should) be separate from the numerical array type and  
strings that Lua already provides and that is integrated with tables.

The reason is that there are more and more extensions that operate on  
such data (audio, video, images, data analysis, numerics,  
visualization, graphics, etc.), and having a standard representation  
for them would make it more likely that extensions can interoperate.

Cheers,
Thomas.