On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:36:21PM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
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> =head1 TITLE
>
> Builtin: partition
>
> =head1 VERSION
>
> Maintainer: Jeremy Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 11 August 2000
> Version: 1
> Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Number: 91
>
> =head1 ABSTRACT
>
> It is proposed that a new function, C<partition>, be added to Perl.
> C<partition($partition_size, \@list)> would return @list broken into
> references to sub-lists, each one $list_size in size.
>
> =head1 DESCRIPTION
>
> In order to work with lists of arbitary size, it is often necessary to
> split a list into equal sized sub-lists. A C<partition> function is
> proposed that achieves this:
>
> @list = (1,2,3,4,5,6);
> @partitioned_list = partition(2, \@list); # ([1,2],[3,4],[5,6])
How is this different to you other RFC for unzip() ?
> @unzipped_list = unzip(3, \@zipped_list); # ([1,3,5], [2,4,6])
Graham.
