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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: >> Is there anything blocking this from happening, or just the usual (time, >> effort, tuits)? > > The usual, plus lack of inspiration. > >> >> Is there any other case besides for/foreach that 'a..z' should iterate on >> the fly rather than immediately generate a list in memory? > > I hadn’t thought of that, but if it could iterate on the fly in more > places it would allow for more idiomatic code. It would be awesome if we had real lazy lists, but that would require coroutines first (which is known to be doable, but has many edge-cases, in particular dynamic scoping ones). Some kind of internal generator would be a good start though, but would still be non-trivial. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next