Author: ruoso
Date: 2008-11-27 15:07:52 +0100 (Thu, 27 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 24091
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S07-iterators.pod
Log:
[spec] small code examples on how to get the generic item iterator, lazy slice
and lazy list
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S07-iterators.pod
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--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S07-iterators.pod 2008-11-27 13:57:34 UTC (rev 24090)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S07-iterators.pod 2008-11-27 14:07:52 UTC (rev 24091)
@@ -140,22 +140,34 @@
they can use a generic item iterator to consolidate the access to the
input iterator, doing additional iterators when an empty capture is
returned and holding additional values if more than one item is
-returned.
+returned. The following code will result in getting a generic item
+iterator:
+ my $foo <== @a;
+
+You can later do:
+
+ my $item = =$foo;
+
=head2 Generic Lazy List
The generic lazy list accepts an iterator as input, and consumes the
iterator as the elements of the list are accessed but flattening and
-storing the already-evaluated elements.
+storing the already-evaluated elements. To obtain a generic lazy list,
+just do:
+ my @a <== @b;
+
=head2 Generic Lazy Slice
The generic lazy slice accepts an iterator as input, and consumes the
iterator as the elements of the list are accessed but storing the
already-evaluated elements as a bi-dimensional list, where the first
dimension holds each iteration, and the second contains the return of
-each iteration.
+each iteration. To obtain a generic lazy slice, do:
+ my @@a <== map { ... }, 1,2,3;
+
=head1 Additions
Please post errors and feedback to perl6-language. If you are making
