On 2008-Sep-23, at 8:38 am, TSa wrote:
Moritz Lenz wrote:
In Perl 5 a negative limit means "unlimited", which we don't have
to do
because we have the Whatever star.
I like the notion of negative numbers as the other end of infinity.
I think positive values and zero make sense. But I don't want to give
funny meanings to negatives; it would be better to replace the int
limit with a range instead. (Maybe it would be OK to accept a single
Int as short for 1..$i, or *-$i as short for *-$i..*.)
Then again, we could get rid of the limit arg altogether, return
everything, and take a slice of the result -- assuming it can be lazy
enough to calculate only what ends up getting sliced out.
-David
