You recently have a tendency to use this "speaking of which" phrase to actually
do a Monty-Python-esque "and now for something completely different" ...
> brouht up the fact that it's not immediate, in Hansl, to delete certain
> row/columns from a matrix.
Yeah, by coincidence I just answered this (old) question yesterday on Stackexchange
(
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37242922/deleting-a-column-in-hansl).
> but I wouldn't be averse to introducing a function pair like killcol(X,
> e) and killrow(X, e). Opinions?
First, it would be an improvement. Second, if at all possible, I would favor some clever
extension of the matrix indexing apparatus. For example (just an example, no claim of
optimality), X[-3, -2] might return the matrix X without the 3rd row and the 2nd column.
I like Sven's suggestion. I also like that I've had the Liberty Bell March running
through my head since Jack's last comment ;-)
PS