On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
For example, this is guaranteed to have the side effect of running
out of memory before it starts to print anything:
print **1...;
Speaking of which I wonder if it can be detected and cause an error to be
emitted. Which is to say, if it is possible f
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 03:05:53PM +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote:
: Larry Wall a écrit :
: | On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:42:44AM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote:
: | : Do functions like map and grep, which in Perl5 return lists, return
: | : Iterators in Perl6?
: |
: | A list may contain iterators. Lists
Larry Wall a écrit :
| On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:42:44AM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote:
| : Do functions like map and grep, which in Perl5 return lists, return
| : Iterators in Perl6?
|
| A list may contain iterators. Lists don't eagerly flatten in Perl 6.
|
| : Can an Iterator be passed to a functi
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:42:44AM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote:
: Do functions like map and grep, which in Perl5 return lists, return
: Iterators in Perl6?
A list may contain iterators. Lists don't eagerly flatten in Perl 6.
: Can an Iterator be passed to a function (like map and grep again)
: that
On 11/11/05, Joe Gottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The various synopses contain many mentions of Iterators. These are used,
> for instance, to implement lazy lists so the expression 1..1_000_000 does
> not have to allocate a million element array. But as far as I can tell the
> term is neve
The various synopses contain many mentions of Iterators. These are used,
for instance, to implement lazy lists so the expression 1..1_000_000 does
not have to allocate a million element array. But as far as I can tell the
term is never defined anywhere in the synopses. Is Iterator a role, and
