On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 2:49 PM +0000 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > >> > >> For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer > >> abstraction, and some of which relate to "infinite" strings and arrays,
> >I hope someone volunteers to start looking into implementing that soon > >(if no one has already). > > Yup, in progress. > > There is an issue of time--what do we do, for example, in the case: > > my $pi = Pi::Generate; > if ($pi =~ /[a-z]) { > print "There's a letter in here!\n"; > } > > if Pi::Generate returns a generator object that will calculate pi for > you to however far you want, that regex will run forever or until it > runs out of memory, whichever comes first. We simply guarantee that Perl will always give you enough rope to hang yourself, you just need to ask nicely. Alex Gough