On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:08:55AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Well, C<for $foo> gives you a one-iteration loop. But perhaps list
: flatten could work on iterators:
:
: for *$foo { ... }
I dislike that purely on visual grounds in the case of
for *$*IN { ... }
But I expect most folks will end up writing $IN instead of $*IN anyway.
[snip]
: The array abstraction doesn't work well for iterators, so perhaps
: that's not the best way to go.
At the moment there seem to be two related punctuational forms:
for <$iter> {...}
for $iter.<> {...}
: I'm personally a fan of "every" as well as renaming Ruby's "each" to
: something else.
We can settle on a word form later if necessary. Then if we make it
a long enough word almost nobody will use it unless they really want
to steal <> badly. :-)
Of course a conniving thief might steal the angles from <$iter>
without stealing them from $iter.<>.
Larry
