On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:36:33 -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
If we had some kind of partitioning operator, it'd probably be generalized
to sorting into bins by number, where 0 and 1 are degenerate cases for
booleans. But since we'd almost certainly make the general form
(@bin0, @bin1,
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:31:10AM +0200, Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: I think that grep should be renamed to something English and more, well,
: semantic. 'Filter' comes to mind as a suggestion. I realise there's a
: lot of cultural background (from Unix and Perl 5) that favours 'grep',
:
Larry Wall skribis 2005-11-18 11:36 (-0800):
In Perl 5, to set a slice, you have to write
%hash{ @keys } = @values;
@... :)
whereas in Perl 6, it'd be nice to be able to say that with all
the keys and values on the right side somehow.
Shouldn't a simple
%hash = @keys Y @values;
Larry Wall wrote:
If we had some kind of partitioning operator, it'd probably be generalized
to sorting into bins by number, where 0 and 1 are degenerate cases for
booleans.
Cool!
This doesn't solve the general case, but how about a left-side zip:
zip( @keys, @values ) = %hash;
zip(
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The name is relatively unimportant in the overall scheme of things.
I'm more worried about the fact that it's difficult to partition a
list into multiple lists in one pass without declaring temp arrays.
Didn't the list agree long ago on a `part` builtin? I
2005/11/18, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The name is relatively unimportant in the overall scheme of things.
I'm more worried about the fact that it's difficult to partition a
list into multiple lists in one pass without declaring temp
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:41:33PM -0800, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: The name is relatively unimportant in the overall scheme of things.
: I'm more worried about the fact that it's difficult to partition a
: list into multiple lists in one pass
