On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:05:29AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Michael G Schwern writes:
> : (grep {...} @stuff)[0] will work, but its inelegant.
>
> It's inelegant only because the slice doesn't know how to tell the
> iterator it only needs one value. If it did know, you'd call it
> elegant. :-)
I'd call it Haskel! I've just installed it and have been skimming the
docs.
Would be neat if: my($first) = grep {...} @list; knew to stop itself, yes.
It also reminds me of mjd's mention of: my($first) = sort {...} @list;
being O(n) if Perl were really Lazy.
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I have this god-awful need to aquire useless crap!!!
