use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/; use Test::More; sub matrix2 (&@){ my $code = shift; my @coor; my $depth = @_; my $rec; $rec = sub { return $code->(@coor) unless @_; my $level = $depth - @_; my $max = shift; my $cursor = \$coor[$level]; my $arr = [ map { $$cursor = $_; $rec->(@_) } 0 .. $max ]; return $arr; }; $rec->(@_); } my $a_matrix = matrix2 {"<@_>"} 3,2,1; my @classic; for my $x (0..3) { for my $y (0..2) { for my $z (0..1) { $classic[$x][$y][$z] = "<$x $y $z>"; } } } is_deeply($a_matrix,\@classic,"same matrix"); pp \@classic; done_testing; #### ok 1 - same matrix [ [ ["<0 0 0>", "<0 0 1>"], ["<0 1 0>", "<0 1 1>"], ["<0 2 0>", "<0 2 1>"], ], [ ["<1 0 0>", "<1 0 1>"], ["<1 1 0>", "<1 1 1>"], ["<1 2 0>", "<1 2 1>"], ], [ ["<2 0 0>", "<2 0 1>"], ["<2 1 0>", "<2 1 1>"], ["<2 2 0>", "<2 2 1>"], ], [ ["<3 0 0>", "<3 0 1>"], ["<3 1 0>", "<3 1 1>"], ["<3 2 0>", "<3 2 1>"], ], ] 1..1