On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Dan Hursh wrote:
> Peter Behroozi wrote:
>
> > I'm not particular to any of the verbs used yet, but maybe that's
> > because I don't think of the <> as a general iterator, but more of a
> > gobbler-type creature (and formerly a globber, too). Could we try:
> >
> > for $foo.fetch { ... } #or
> > for $foo.grab { ... } #or
> > for $foo.eat { ... }
> >
> > And to replace $/ we could have something like:
> >
> > for $foo.fetch :upto(",") { ... } #or
> > for $foo.fetch :until(",") { ... }
>
> general impose scalar impose list
> ------- -------- -------------- ------------
> D $foo.eat $foo.bite $foo.gobble
> N $foo.look $foo.peek $foo.peruse
>
> hmm, I don't like eat in this case
>
> D $foo.take $foo.grab $foo.horde
D $foo.drink $foo.sip $foo.slurp
N $foo.taste
Ok, I'll stop now. But I do sort of (very minorly) like sip as a mini-slurp.
>
> That assumes folks think of grab as being singular and take as being
> open ended. That, and I don't want take to colide with gather{take}.
> Oh well.
>
> Dan
>
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