On 5/6/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The question is whether to treat the left arg the same way we treat
> attribute defaults, with one free closure call. We could say that
>
> { rand 10 } x 100
> { rand 10 } xx 100
>
> should just automatically call the closure on the left repeatedly. In
> the rare, rare case that you want to actually replicate a closure, you'd
> have to say
>
> { { rand 10 } } x 100
> { { rand 10 } } xx 100
But we also have to remember that, given:
my @codes = { { rand 10 } } xx 100;
say @codes[0] == @codes[1]; # 0
You're not duplicating one closure as you are with:
my @others = { rand 10 } xx 100;
Without the closure semantics of xx. If you made @codes[0] do some
role, it would only apply to @codes[0], but if you made @others[0] do
some role, it would apply to every closure in @others.
Luke
