On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:26:06PM -0800, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: : Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > * Since we already stole angles from iterators, «$fh» is not : > how you make iterators iterate. Instead we use $fh.fetch (or : > whatever) in scalar context, and $fh.fetch or @$fh or $fh[] : > or *$fh in list context. : : I believe you tried this one a couple years ago, and people freaked : out. As an alternative, could we get a different operator for this? : I propose one of: : : $fh -> : $fh» (and $fh>>) : $fh> : : All three have connotations of "the next thing". The first one might : interfere with pointy subs, though, and the last two would be : whitespace-sensitive. (But it looks like that isn't a bad thing : anymore...)
In lines with the '...' "..." and <...> <<...>> progressions, the following progression has a nice symmetry: $iter --> #extract next (one) element from iterator $iter $iter ==> #pipeline all elements (lazy) in turn from iterator $iter However, I haven't been paying a lot of attention, to the current state of affairs, so it is probably broken in some way. --
