Re: PATCH: S04 - unary C<=> is not slurpy

Autrijus asked:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 05:37:18PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
>>Based on an off-list discussion, it turns out that unary C<=>
>>is not slurpy as mentioned in S04.  The following patch to S04
>>corrects this; I've already applied the patch but thought I'd
>>pass it by p6l for review/comments/reactions.
> 
> 
> Does it mean that it's a synonym to "&readline"?

No. It's the general-purpose "iterate this..." operator.

Applied to a filehandle, it iterates the filehandle (which *is* equivalent to 
  calling C<readline>).

But it can also be applied to any other iterator object, in which case it 
calls that object's C<.next> method.

Damian

• PATCH: S04 - unary C<=> is not slurpy by Patrick R. Michaud
• Re: PATCH: S04 - unary C<=> is not slurpy by Autrijus Tang
• Re: PATCH: S04 - unary C<=> is not slurpy by Damian Conway