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At 09:42 PM 5/8/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:58:24PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > Perhaps Perl 6 will have ordinary blocks that can function as continuations
> > to the surrounding list context.
>
>OK, now you've broken my brain. Can you give me an example that is i) useful
>and ii) reasonably obvious to the untrained eye? If not, I humbly suggest it
>has little business being in the "blue-collar language" we call Perl.
@foo = ({scalar each %some_tied_hash});
with the function being called only when you access a particular element?
(Presumably calling it for elements 0-9 and caching them if the first
element you access is 10)
Dan
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