On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 06:54:42PM -0200, Flavio S. Glock wrote: : 2005/11/11, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: : > : > While you're there, also think about the gray area between arrays and hashes, : > and whether .[...] subscripts are just a specialized form of .{...} subscripts. : : By the way, are lazy hash slices allowed? : : %h{1...}
I don't see why not. Why should people have to write map { %h{$_} } 1... to get the lazy behavior? Plus we can do something intelligent with the size of the dimension in the case of an array that we know the shape of. : I asked this in #perl6 when I was implementing lazy arrays (in the p5 : backend), and most people found it was useless. But I thought I would : just ask again :) For any given feature, I don't care much about the people who find it useless--I care more about the people who find it useful. :-) (That is, of course, as long as it doesn't get in the way of people who aren't interested in the feature.) Larry