On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Dan Hursh wrote:

> Peter Behroozi wrote:
>
> > I'm not particular to any of the verbs used yet, but maybe that's
> > because I don't think of the <> as a general iterator, but more of a
> > gobbler-type creature (and formerly a globber, too).  Could we try:
> >
> > for $foo.fetch { ... } #or
> > for $foo.grab { ... } #or
> > for $foo.eat { ... }
> >
> > And to replace $/ we could have something like:
> >
> > for $foo.fetch :upto(",") { ... } #or
> > for $foo.fetch :until(",") { ... }
>
>       general         impose scalar   impose list
> -------       --------        --------------  ------------
>    D  $foo.eat        $foo.bite       $foo.gobble
>    N  $foo.look       $foo.peek       $foo.peruse
>
> hmm, I don't like eat in this case
>
>    D  $foo.take       $foo.grab       $foo.horde

     D  $foo.drink  $foo.sip    $foo.slurp
     N  $foo.taste

Ok, I'll stop now.  But I do sort of (very minorly) like sip as a mini-slurp.

>
> That assumes folks think of grab as being singular and take as being
> open ended.  That, and I don't want take to colide with gather{take}.
> Oh well.
>
> Dan
>

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