Re: Schwartzian Transform

[Adam Turoff]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:15:51PM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> Adam Turoff wrote:
> > This message is not an RFC, nor is it an intent to add a feature 
> > to Perl or specify a syntax for that feature[*].  
> 
> Yay.
> 

[...]

> So you think
> 
>   @s = 
>     map  { $_->[0] }
>     sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
>     map  { [ $_, /num:(\d+)/ ] }
>       @t;
> 
> would be more clearly written as
> 
>   @s = schwartzian(
>     {
>       second_map  => sub { $_->[0] },
>       the_sort    => sub { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] },
>       first_map   => sub { [ $_, /num:(\d+)/ ] },
>     },
>     @t );
> 
> ???

Which part of "not ... an intent to ... specify a syntax" didn't 
you understand?

And, no, I don't think that verbosity is an improvement, nor do I
remember recommending newbie-confounding syntax with verbosity.  

Z.