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Postings from May 2001
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:56:41PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: > People are *very much* familiar with reading a line from a file. People > may steer clear from a language because it deeply relies on exotic stuff > like iterators. > ... > What you could do, is treat an iterator as "something similar to reading > a line from a file". Tied filehandles allow something like it in Perl5. You know, if what you say is true, I'd expect to find a module on CPAN which turns the "exotic" 'each' function into the "friendly" tied filehandle model. But I don't see one. I think people are less confused by all this than you imagine. :) -- "Having just ordered 40 books and discovered I have no change out of a grand, I'm thinking of getting a posse together and going after some publishers. I'd walk into a petrol station and buy lots of petrol on Monday, too, but I think I'd get funny looks. More funny looks." - Mark Dickerson