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?