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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Are only simple scalars allowed in "do SUBROUTINE (LIST)" ?
Message-ID: <1990Mar7.181226.3626@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 7 Mar 90 18:12:26 GMT
References: <1211@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au> <7269@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <21611@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990Mar6.180823.27618@iwarp.intel.com> <7294@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <15236@bfmny0.UU.NET>
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In-Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)

In article <15236@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0 (Tom Neff) writes:
| In article <7294@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
| >Would you settle for this?
| >
| >	( LIST ) [ EXPR ]
| 
| Definitely, absolutely, this would be great!!
| 
| Slicing self-defining lists would be a subtle and powerful technique if
| implemented.  And it's an elegant fit in the Perl model.

Yeah, and don't forget (since *I* forgot it :-),

	( LIST ) { EXPR }

for an assoc-array!  (Now, how's *that* for weird??!!)  Usage like:

	print ('r','red','b','blue','g','green'){$color}, " was picked.\n";

OK, so I'm a fanatic for orthogonality.  I dare'ya to parse that
cleanly.  Will it work inside quoted strings? :-) :-)

[I confess: I worked on the following sig ahead of time...]

open(M,"/usr/games/lib/quiz.k/morse") || die "morse: ($!)";
while(<M>) {next unless /([A-Z]):(.*)/; $m{$2}=$1;} close(M);
print grep($_ = ($m{$_} || $_), split(/([^-.])/,<<EOF)); exit 0;
.--- ..- ... -/.- -. --- - .... . .-./.--. . .-. .-../.... .- -.-. -.- . .-.,
EOF
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