Re: $a in @b

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:46:13AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >     grep { $_ == 1 } 1..1_000_000
> 
> >grep doesn't short-circuit.
> 
> I never did figure out why "last" {w,sh,c}ouldn't be made to do
> that very thing.

Agreed, that would be very natural.

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