On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:56:41PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> People are *very much* familiar with reading a line from a file. People
> may steer clear from a language because it deeply relies on exotic stuff
> like iterators.
> ...
> What you could do, is treat an iterator as "something similar to reading
> a line from a file". Tied filehandles allow something like it in Perl5.
You know, if what you say is true, I'd expect to find a module on CPAN which
turns the "exotic" 'each' function into the "friendly" tied filehandle model.
But I don't see one. I think people are less confused by all this than you
imagine. :)
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