hello everyone,
I made a mistake while replying to all of us so anwsers never reached
your boxes. I'll summerize in one answer:
Bill:
> Is it just even/odd elements that you want to separate out? If so, maybe
> .grep() is your friend here
I don't think it is: 0, 2 ... * seems to be
* closer to what i have in mind when i think about the problem
(so i invoke readability there)
* probably more efficient than (0..*).grep(* % 2) that
* generate twice the number of required elements
* need to filter the result
Also, trying to play with this version:
my ($a,$b) =
.[0,2...*],
.[1,3...*]
with <AaBbCc>.comb;
just don't work because the lists are squashed into scalar context
in the process.
So Brian and Fernando made my day with := and the unexpected power of
the [] operator.
my (@a,@b) := <AaBbCc>.comb[ [0,2...*], [1,3...*] ];
I really like how declarative it is. Also the use of := now seems
obvious to me.
Sigils still remains something strange to me desprite all your examples
but i'll take some time. thanks everyone.
marc
