On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:09:23AM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:41 PM
To: Perl6
Subject: Re: Reverse .. operator
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:34:22PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote
:41 PM
To: Perl6
Subject: Re: Reverse .. operator
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:34:22PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote:
: Is there similar shorthand to set @foo = (5, 3, 3, 2, 1) ? I know you
can
: go
:
: @foo = reverse (1 ..5);
:
: but this has the major disadvantage
Joe Gottman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In perl 6, the statement
@foo = (1.. 5) ;
is equivalent to
@foo = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
Is there similar shorthand to set @foo = (5, 3, 3, 2, 1) ? I know you can
go
@foo = reverse (1 ..5);
but this
-Original Message-
From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:41 PM
To: Perl6
Subject: Re: Reverse .. operator
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:34:22PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote:
: Is there similar shorthand to set @foo = (5, 3, 3, 2, 1) ? I know
In perl 6, the statement
@foo = (1.. 5) ;
is equivalent to
@foo = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
Is there similar shorthand to set @foo = (5, 3, 3, 2, 1) ? I know you can
go
@foo = reverse (1 ..5);
but this has the major disadvantage that it cannot be
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:34:22PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote:
: Is there similar shorthand to set @foo = (5, 3, 3, 2, 1) ? I know you can
: go
:
: @foo = reverse (1 ..5);
:
: but this has the major disadvantage that it cannot be evaluated lazily;
: reverse has to see the entire list
