Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > --- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> I wonder what would happen if you had a junction of
>> >> continuations. Producing something practical is left as an
>> >> exercise for the interested reader.
>> >
>> > Isn't this effectively "paste(1)" ?
>> >
>> > That is,
>> >
>> > my $outfh = all(@input_handles);
>> > while (<$outfh>) print;
>> >
>> > for suitable tunings of chomp/append-newlines modes?
>>
>> Okay, I'm confused, how is that a junction of continuations?
>
> A diamonded FH is just an iterator over blobs from a file. And an
> iterator is just a continuation.
I thought an iterator was just a coroutine. Continuations are a little
more 'basic' than that.
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
