Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:28:59PM -0500, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
>
> > my @b = for @a -> $_ {
> > ...
> > }
>
> That will be a syntax error. Generators are too mind-stretching to
> inflict on novices [...]
I making the point that within the context of this we-wish-loops-were-
expressions discussion, the "for expression" was simply another way
to spell map, at least when autoiterating an array.
I certainly wasn't thinking in terms of coroutines--they absolutely
deserve a large syntactic barrier.
> > # (Apologies for the perl5-isms.)
> > for @a -> $_ {
> > push @b: do { ... };
> > }
>
> Hmm? I see no perl5-isms there. Or rather, I see no
> non-perl6-isms...
It's been a while since I read Apocalypses; I wasn't sure if do { }
(still) meant what I meant it to mean ("the result of the last
statement in the block"). There was also a scalar() in there when I
wrote the apology, but I removed it on further consideration of the
equivalence to map {}. :)
--
Gordon Henriksen
IT Manager
ICLUBcentral Inc.
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