Moritz Lenz moritz-at-casella.verplant.org |Perl 6| wrote:
map *is* lazy, as are all list builtins that can be lazy (which doesn't
include stuff like sort, which has to look at all items anyway).
Well, sure, but it can be lazy about finding the ordering of the
remaining elements, if you only
Consider something like a 'map' call, only I want it to be lazy. I know that a
list can contain internally iterators that generate elements as needed or
perhaps in the background. But how do you create such a thing? Something like:
@lazy_list := parallel-map { get_info($_) } @filenames;
John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Consider something like a 'map' call, only I want it to be lazy.
map *is* lazy, as are all list builtins that can be lazy (which doesn't
include stuff like sort, which has to look at all items anyway).
I know that a
list can contain internally iterators that generate
Moritz Lenz moritz-at-casella.verplant.org |Perl 6| wrote:
map *is* lazy, as are all list builtins that can be lazy (which doesn't
include stuff like sort, which has to look at all items anyway).
Are you sure that it doesn't imply order of evaluation by default? I'm
all for it (to be
