Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall): > I should also mention I did (briefly) consider the "null" reduce > operator: > > [] zip(1,2;3,4) > > to mean "slap [] around each element", but it runs into ambiguity with > the existing [] form indicating an empty list.
Would using [[]] instead work? This is (at least to me) nicely visually indicative of 'build a list of lists'. It is a little punctuation-heavy, of course; though we could always allow "\x{27E6}\x{27E7}" as an alternative :). Ben -- Although few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it. Pericles of Athens, c.430 B.C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]