Aaron Sherman writes:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:38, Luke Palmer wrote:
>
> > Your "list mod" idea is interesting, though. I fear that adding too
> > many list operators will start to make us look like Haskell, where we
> > have *extremely* expressive single lines that take an hour to write and
>
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:38, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Your "list mod" idea is interesting, though. I fear that adding too
> many list operators will start to make us look like Haskell, where we
> have *extremely* expressive single lines that take an hour to write and
> an hour to read (I call this "c
Juerd writes:
> What if instead of
>
> my @copy = @array;
> while (my @chunk = splice @copy, 0, $chunksize) {
> ...
> } # ^1
Well, I for one never write that. I very seldom use splice.
>
> we could just write
>
> for @array [/] $chunksize -> @chunk { ... }
Well, we c
It was a matter of time, of course, after my last thread.
How often do we want chunks of a string or list? And how often do we
abuse a temporary copy and substr/splice for that?
What if instead of
my @copy = @array;
while (my @chunk = splice @copy, 0, $chunksize) {
...
} # ^
