On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: > Well, Perl 6 is coming with one of those as a builtin, called C<reduce> > (see List::Util). But you can't quite use a shorthand syntax like > yours. You have to say either:
Cool, that's what I wanted to know. Taking into account both this circumstance and the other replies, it seems I wasn't the only one to consider this useful enough to deserve being a builtin... Michele -- > A mathematically-inclined glove-fetishist [...] What a wonderful introduction to a puzzle! - Richard Heathfield in sci.math, "Re: Gloves in the dark"