On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:33:14AM -0500, Miko O'Sullivan wrote: > For example, suppose I want to separate a list of people into people who > have never donated money and those who have. Assuming that each person > object has a donations property which is an array reference, I would want > to classify them in this manner: > > (@nevers, @donors) := classify($_->[donations]) @people; > > According to the C<int> model, that would give me people who have donated > zero times, and people who have donated once, and the people who have > donated more than once would be lost.
Then turn donations into a boolean. (@donors, @nevers) := classify(!$_->[donations]) @people; I don't think there is the need to bloat the langauge with every special case we can think of. Graham.
