Re: Please make "last" work in "grep"

[H . Merijn Brand]

On Wed, 2 May 2001 08:05:29 -0700 (PDT), Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael G Schwern writes:
> : (grep {...} @stuff)[0] will work, but its inelegant.
> 
> It's inelegant only because the slice doesn't know how to tell the
> iterator it only needs one value.  If it did know, you'd call it
> elegant.  :-)

IIRC, that optimization is not even considered for reasons of many people
wanting the side effects of grep/map finishing over all elements (which could
of course be from a tied array or database connection)

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