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 > -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ Keyboard not found. Think F1 to continue.