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> Well, it's pretty handy to be able to generalise what join() does > for concat to any abitrary function. It's covered by: > http://dev.perl.org/rfc/76.html which proposes a new reduce() > builtin. C<reduce> is almost definitely in (in some form). That's why I used it in E3. > Edwin's idea was that this could be done with an adverb just like '^' does > for element-wise array operations. Such an approach has been used > successfully in other languages, but I haven't seen any indication that > Larry and Damian are considering this for P6. FWIW, I haven't seen any indication that we are either. ;-) DamianThread Previous | Thread Next