On Thu, 10 May 2001 17:15:09 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>> What you could do, is treat an iterator as "something similar to reading
>> a line from a file". Tied filehandles allow something like it in Perl5.
>
>You know, if what you say is true, I'd expect to find a module on CPAN which
>turns the "exotic" 'each' function into the "friendly" tied filehandle model.
>But I don't see one. I think people are less confused by all this than you
>imagine. :)
Perhaps it's because the people who are capable of writing such a
module, are the ones who don't need it. But, not everyone is a conway.
There must be some reason why a language like Sather isn't more popular.
I think that iters are part of the problem.
--
Bart.
