Author: ruoso
Date: 2008-11-27 14:57:34 +0100 (Thu, 27 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 24090
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S07-iterators.pod
Log:
[spec] Small text revisions on S07
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S07-iterators.pod
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--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S07-iterators.pod 2008-11-27 13:49:24 UTC (rev 24089)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S07-iterators.pod 2008-11-27 13:57:34 UTC (rev 24090)
@@ -11,14 +11,14 @@
Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Nov 2008
Last Modified: 27 Nov 2008
- Version: 1
+ Version: 2
=head1 Laziness and Eagerness
As we all know, one of the primary virtues of the Perl programmer is
laziness. This is also one of the virtues of Perl itself. However,
-Perl knows better than to succumb to false laziness, and so is eager
-sometimes, and lazy others. Perl defines 4 levels of laziness for
+Perl 6 knows better than to succumb to false laziness, and so is eager
+sometimes, and lazy others. Perl 6 defines 4 levels of laziness for
Iterators:
=over
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
It's important to realize that the responsability of determining the
level of lazyness/eagerness in each operation is external to each lazy
-object, the runtime, depending on which operation is being performed
+object, the runtime, depending on which operation is being performed,
is going to assume the level of lazyness and perform the needed
operations to apply that level.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
=item Feed operators: my @a <== @something;
The feed operator is strictly lazy, meaning that no operation should
-be performed before the user requests any element from @a. That's how
+be performed before the user requests any element. That's how
my @a <== grep { ... } <== map { ... } <== grep { ... } <== 1, 2, 3
@@ -111,8 +111,7 @@
The iterator role represents the lazy access to a list, walking
through a data structure (list, tree whatever), feeds (map, grep etc)
-or a stream (mostly for IO). Each time it is called, will return the
-elements produced at that iteration.
+or a stream (mostly for IO).
It's important to realize that the iterator of a list can be accessed
by the .Iterator() method (but only the runtime will be calling that
@@ -133,7 +132,7 @@
=head1 Auxiliary Implementations
-Perl's built-ins require that a number of default iterators exist.
+Perl's built-ins require that a number of auxiliary types.
=head2 Generic Item Iterator
