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
