On 11/23/05, Flavio S. Glock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we have: > > say 1..Inf; > > to output an infinite stream, instead of just looping forever? > > OTOH, it would be nice if > > say substr( ~(1..Inf), 0, 10 ) > > printed "1 2 3 4 5". > > Flattened lists would still loop forever (or fail): > > say **(1..Inf); > > $s = substr( ~( **(1..Inf) ), 0, 10 );
This would work, I think, if ranges were convertable to iterators, stringification was lazy, and substr() informed the stringification of how much it needed to do. I'm not sure how feasible that last one is ... Rob
