[Sent off-group by mistake. On #perl6 the impression was that now Pipe is becoming a Role for things that can lazily be read from; and thus any filehandle or lazy list fulfills them. Larry, please help us understand if this is the case.]
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:53:41AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > The semicolon operator no longer builds a list of lists, but a list > of pipes, which are specially marked Lazies that know they came from > pipe operators (including semicolons as a kind of pipe operator). > When bound to an ordinary splat array (or in fact any splat array whose > type isn't Pipe), the Pipes flatten as if they were comma separated. > When bound to an array of type Pipe, each pipe stays discrete. I thought the class Pipe was reserved for what the result of open-"foo|" is in Perl 5? That's what we call it in Prelude.pm at least; if it needs to be renamed maybe IPC could work. -- Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://gaal.livejournal.com/
