[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:03:55PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: > Do they need to? In the simple case, the hyperoperator provides list
: > context to its arguments, but just calls the scalar operation repeatedly
: > to fake up the list operation. Any operator
: >
: > @result = @a ^op @b
: >
: > is really just something like
: >
: > @result = for @a; @b -> $a, $b { $a op $b }
:
: Just to make sure I'm not confused, the for loop above should really
: look like this:
:
: @result = for @a; @b -> $a; $b { $a op $b }
:
: right? I re-read the Apocalypse and it says that both of these would
: be the same, but if that's the case, then I don't understand how you
: would take items two at a time across multiple streams.
Good question. Maybe we'll just have to require the semicolon. That
would make one less exception, and allow your two-at-a-time-alternately
to work. Though if that's not what they intended, it'd be a subtle bug...
Larry
