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From:
Uri Guttman
Date:
May 4, 2005 06:19
Subject:
Re: reduce metaoperator
Message ID:
x7br7rnn7t.fsf@mail.sysarch.com
>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes:
LW> I propose that reduce become a metaoperator that can be applied to
LW> any binary operator and turns it syntactically into a list operator.
LW> I am currently thinking that the metaoperator is a prefix spelled \\
LW> (though there are certainly lots of other possibilities that I've laid
LW> awake all night thinking about). There are the usual suspects like:
LW> $sum = \\+ @array;
LW> $fact = \\* 1..$num;
shouldn't that be s/fact/prod/ ? sure the input makes it a factorial but
the general case would be a product. not that what var names you choose
matters but i think it would be clearer if used as a real example in
some future docs.
uri
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