On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:48:59PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
: JOSEPH RYAN writes:
: > When I think about your description of xxx, I
: > summarized it in my head as "Call a coderef a certain
: > number of times, and then collect the results."
: > That's pretty much what map is, except that xxx is
: > infix and map is prefix.
: >
: >
: > @results = { ... } xxx 100;
: > @results = map { ... } 1.. 100;
: >
: > Doesn't seem that special to me.
:
: And adding to that the definition of a unary hyper operator:
:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == map { §$_ } @list
:
: It seems that the rand problem could be solved this way:
:
: my @nums = rand« (100 xx 100);
The rand function may be a bad example, since it's by nature a
generator, and you should maybe have to work harder to get a single
value out of it. We haven't really said what <$fh> xx 100 should do,
for instance. I guess the real question is whether xx supplies a
list context to its left argument (and whether rand pays attention
to list context). These might produce very different results:
@foo = (rand);
@bar = (+rand);
On the other hand, history has rand producing a scalar, so arguably we
should stick with that.
Larry
